Man Faces Life In Jail For Recording Police

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Conservative Byte
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41-year old Illinois mechanic Michael Allison faces life in jail for recording police officers after authorities hit him with eavesdropping charges based on the hoax that it is illegal to film cops, a misnomer that has been disproved by every other case against people filming police officers being thrown out of court.

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  • John Galt

    The above link does not seem to be active and I would like to read the entire article,but lacking that I would offer some thoughts. First; there seems to be an increasingly aggressive stance taken by the police against every day citizens, while criminals are being dealt with more leniently. This seems to manifest itself with the younger police officers. Just an impression, nothing more. Second; it is apparent to me that the practice of restricting video activities in public is blatantly unconstitutional and gives rise to a “secret police” type of state. The police work for us, we pay their salary and benefits. Yes; their job can be difficult but they still work for us, not the other way around. Third, the police seem care more about themselves than the general citizen, again, just an impression.

    • Conservative Byte

      Fixed.
      Sorry about that!
      Thanks

      • http://smashauthority.blogspot.com/ STOP SNITCHING

        fuck the police!

        • LarryC

          Congratulations! You have just demonstrated your ignorance!

          • whatever

            No. You demonstrated your ignorance LarryC. The definition of ignorance is: “Lack of knowledge or information”. After gaining knowledge from this article, he expressed his opinion, not ignorance. It seems you are the ignorant one and probably a programmed freedom-robbing cop as well.

          • Buck Ofama

            Nothing ignorant about that attitude at all. How often do the cops actually help someone vs. how often they are harassing citizens? Why do policemen and correctional officer unions have their own lobbying efforts at the capitol? They want more jobs, hours, overtime… just to have more writing tickets and intimidating the law abiding with their coarse attitudes. The do forget they are public servants, and have over inflated egos. Which leads to all the beatings and shootings of “suspects”. Law enforcement needs an overhaul too.

          • Goodday

            Your wright Law enforcement has changed over the years, they have thaken more of a Military roll and they seem to be much more intmidating to all of the citizens, If they keep kicking the can down the road with this attitude at some point there going to spark a Revolution and the same applys to the Government, They need to go back and read the Constitution, And why on Gods earth would you want to appoint a director over the FBI like Holder that clearly stated that he did not read the Constitution when it comes to keeping ower boarders safe and the American people. Ower Government is nothing but a Parasite, Rep. Dem or Indtp. there all the sames one starts at the head and the outher starts at the feet, and in the end they both end up in your bank account or wallet there just after your money, and there taking away ower wrights along the way, But it’s not to late they can’t take away ower GUNS and if things don’t change we the People will stand up and kick there ASS and burnd down the white house thats so corrupt.

          • jim

            Sorry Larry I agree with S.S. The police supposedly work for the people as do the State legislature. Time and tima again the common man is screwed by the police who with the help of law makers. Just like the LaSalle city cop that molested my daughter and did worse to her friend. Not one other officers would step up to help the girls. They get away with murder- they really do!
            I refuse to help them —– at least to a point.
            There’s a lot of back woods here and most of the police – county and local are O K those that aren’t get one lesson after that bang bang.

          • Cotterwood

            Larry, I stand with you. They can stand around and argue the meaning ignorance, but the fact remains.
            Grouping all law enforcement as bad is really stupid.
            I happen to have family in law enforcement and lots of friends and they are ALL WITHOUT EXCEPTION good
            Christian men and women. We must remember there are good and bad in ALL walks of life. We now have an
            administration that deals SOLELY as an illegal president with a staff of socialists and communists, and they are trying to spread this crap as fast as possible. THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO BE FIGHTING AGAINST, NOT EACH OTHER. OBAMA WANTS US TO FIGHT EACH OTHER, IT’S EASIER TO CAGE US THAT WAY. KEEP YOU EYES FOCUSED ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT!!!!

          • A veteran

            At times I had wished I had a camera to record the police in action. It is amazing that so many of them have never been in the military service. Almost gives the impression their job is driven by ego and not service to the public. Even the captain of our local PD, when confronted by a table of military veterans, considered himself not part of the group when the question came up. This guy left the table the other non veterans stayed on. Just a simple question for the group, that was all. However, this same public servant can network rumors to his retired buddies to get the low down a person like me because of his “one upmanship” attitude. He has a major ego problem that is reflected by his staff and deputies. The old ad-edge “do as I say not as I do”!

        • lou

          FUCK is an orgasmic isotope composed of Fluorine, Uranium, Carbon and Potassium, and is the basic component of the erotic acids fucitol, fucol, and fukugetin. It is purified from a number of raw ores such as fukalite and fornacite.
          Do you really have to swear. He demeans the importance of your comments.
          Police are important.
          Some are as dishonest as anyone else.
          Make a positive impact on society.
          Help be part of the resolution and not part of the problem.
          Clean up your language and think more precisely.
          Mother always said people who swear have a lack of vocabulary and show their ignorance

          • Cape Fear III

            Lou, Literate, succinct, well organized and, having dabbled somewhat in the chemistry of which you speak, correct!

          • Kelly

            Thank you Lou… very well said

          • arpiem

            I agree with your comments, but Goodday really needs to take a course in grammar and spelling if he or she wishes to be taken seriously.

          • beretta45cal

            I think your mother is wrong about swearing, cops (which are no more than legalized crooks) do it, doctors do it, lawyers, ect., I don’t unless I get angry.
            But I’ve been telling people since back in the 70′s and 80′s that we are becoming a Solicist country and then Mr. Reagen came alone and the (just say no) speeches gave the cops way to much authority. It’s coming, a policed and military state, I just wonder will the cops and military that’s got enough balls to stand behind the people or be replaced with Mulsins for the King and Queen. I know it’s supposed to get this way but God People, FORGET ABOUT REP.’S & DEMO’S, VOTE FOR WHO STANDS FOR THE KING JAMES BIBLE! Yes I’m a Christian and proud of it and no one not no one will ever change that and it shall never be taken away from me. They may kill this earthly body but they will never take my soul.
            And yes I was in the Army but I would have left the minute Mr. Hussein was elected, he and the U.N. (united nothing) setting the world stage for the true anti-Christ.
            By the way you will be waiting a long time for Hussein to hold a press conference about this!

          • Triage

            Here, here

          • lcd

            Your Mother is correct, and I agree!

            I thought it came from “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”.

          • Stanley

            Who cares what you or your mother thinks! She raised you so she must be stupid toooooo!

          • Cotterwood

            Lou,

            EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT! We must keep our eye on WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT…… GETTING OBAMA OUT OF OFFICE IN 2012!!!!

          • TRUTHTELLER

            My mom taught me the same thing. You are judged by your vocabulary.

            Also, many years ago, police officer candidates in Los Angeles, were very thoroughly vetted. Deep background checks were standard procedure. There were also IQ tests given, height and weight restrictions, that were far more demanding than those used today.

            Over the last few years, the the vetting and requirement bar, for police academy acceptance, has been lowered, presumably, for politically correct reasons.

            In view of these facts, I have seen a direct corolation between lowering of police academy entrance rquirements and the rising incidence of police misconduct.

            As I see it, lower quality people are becoming cops.

            Few cops are bad, or commit misconduct, but I believe the numbers of those that have, is increasing.

        • larry

          you sir are an idiot!

        • MLH

          Eavesdropping? Where exactly are the “Eaves”? From Websters New Collegiate Dictionary 1977 edition p. 358 “eaves”: “the lower border of a roof that overhangs the wall”. In other words, you have to be standing outside of someone’s window SECRETLY listening to what is being said inside that room. Now lets look at “eavesdrop”: “literally one standing under the drip from the eaves to listen SECRETLY to what is said in PRIVATE” (emphasis mine). There is no crime! There are no eaves in the case, the listening is being done in PUBLIC, and there is no element of secrecy at all. What we are seeing is a criminal misapplication of the law to chill the Citizens’ right to record anyone in a public place. If this brave man is found guilty by a jury … first SHAME on WE THE PEOPLE … second if you are going to get 75 years for shooting with a camera or cell phone … you might as well shoot with your gun and protect your fellow Citizen from the criminal police action instead … you get the same amount of time for using your gun! Sooner or later WE have to do our duty to stay Free! :)

          • MLH

            http://www.constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm Looks like we have a right to come to our fellow citizen’s aid with our guns when the police go outside the law. These cases need to be Shepardized into each person’s State and Federal Circuit, then see if there is standing Supreme Court precedent. Seldom does the Law not give us a remedy … because when no remedy exists a state of WAR exists. Under a state of war, undeclared or not, necessity knows no law. So it looks like the cops have a choice … they can accept being shot with our cameras or being shot with our firearms. As I stated above, “Sooner or later WE have to do our duty to stay Free!”. :) ))))

        • emerutil

          My sentiments exactly. Ever since I have become a big rig driver, I regard the pigs as my personal enemy!

      • AnyD

        Still waiting for O’Bama to hold a press conference and tell us all the “Police behaved stupidly” like he did when his friend got arrested for breaking into his own house in Massachusetts….
        I have seen some video where a cop is having big time trouble with a crack head and can’t control him. If I was a cop I wouldn’t want that on YouTube either…
        But they can use traffic light cameras, street corner cameras. There is surveillance cameras everywhere. Yet I can’t video an event taking place in my own house? in my own yard? In a courtroom in a hearing where there are 5 “officials” and one of me and I am supposed to trust that I am going to be treated fairly?
        That makes no sense at all. But it works for them and they all have guns so….. Wait! We have guns too…

        • Retired Vet

          I agree, they are all up to no good this administration.
          More stories here too,
          http://democratsgonewild.us

        • Rulken

          Damn right we have guns too, but that’s not the answer to start pulling your gun on an officer!
          Do they need to be held accountable? yes! Do we have the right to record them on duty, yes again. The state of Illinois is denying this man, and anyone else from several constitutional rights.
          The police do work for the “people” not the state, they protect and serve the “people” not the state.
          As long as we don’t interfere with their duties, or an on-going arrest,(by means of obstructing them, from doing their job) we most certainly have the right to film, record, and/or even ask them what they are doing. They are our employees!

          • Evan

            You are right about not ‘pulling guns’ on officers. But only to a point. When THEY become the British soldiers of the 1770′s they should be dealt with in the same way. Their job is to enforce laws, and if they are doing so properly and legally they have NOTHING to fear. Therefore there should be NO hinderance of filming and recording their actions. The ONLY exception to this would be to NOT film officers who are doing undercover work in their official capacity, which would obviously endanger both them and their investigation.
            Other than that they are, and should be, fair game for recording as is everyone else.
            Needless to say the above applies to recordings taken either in/on one’s own property and/or in a public place.
            And public places include the police station, court, and all other PUBLICLY built and paid for structures or locations.
            As said before: HONEST officers doing their job LEGALLY have nothing to fear. It’s the others we concern ourselves about.
            An aside: What else would you expect from a state that created and nurtured the current failure in the White House?

          • David

            Your have the right to self defense against unlawful arrest.
            here are the court precedents.
            http://www.constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm

          • Cotterwood

            Exactly right,, being an prior law enforcement officer.
            Just don’t interfere, obstruct, or otherwise prevent the officer from performing his/her duty. Note: If you are going to video,,,, PLEASE video ALL ASPECTS, not just what you want to fit a particular agenda. BE FAIR AND BALANCED in your video taping. Case in Point: The Rodney King incident….. there was a passenger who did what he was told; exited the vehicle, backed up, was cuffed, was sitting quietly on the curb, while RODNEY
            high on PCP fought the police, was tazed twice, was group tackled and threw them off, oh,,,, did I mention he was a weight lifter???. But, all that was shown was the officer using the batton. The news NEVER mentioned the passenger was never hurt, was sitting quietly, etc. SO, if you are going to film,,,, do it FAIR AND BALANCED. These officers put their lives in danger each day, they at least deserve FAIR AND BALANCED REPORTING. WE ALL DESERVE FAIR TREATMENT.

        • LANI

          They only behave stupidly if its a Friend of Obummer. Now if the police arrest us the regular citizen for the same thing he would have had nothing to say or he would have said the Police were Brilliant!

        • lcd

          Why not an apology, he appoligises for everything else.

          Ever notice that when these problems crop up, like Ruby Ridge, the Branch Devidian raid etc. that the Democrats are in charge? It displays the underlying philosophy of the people in charge.

        • Bimbam

          This is done by the elites to get us ready for a POLICE STATE. They are throwing out warnings that this new POLICE STATE is not to be messed with.

          Like someone said, ignore them, laugh at their laws, don’t pay them their illegal taxes, don’t pay attention to what they say, and don’t do anything they tell you. It will drive them crazy!

    • UncleRoy1

      Yeppers, especially when it comes to recording them – they don’t like that because it shows what *sses they can be, just high school bullies with a badge and gun.

      • http://Yahoo Val

        You are so right..If they don’t have anything to hide, what harm is there, sounds to me like the police are unlawful, and doing criminal things .” DON”T DO AS I DO, DO WHAT I SAY “!!!

        • di-OR

          I think this man is a hero for standing up for our rights, we should have the same right to record as a police officer, recording is only a record of actual events and what is said. The TRUTH matters, why would attorneys want to suppress the truth?

          • Erich

            The lawerys can’t twist a video into what they want, unlike words they twist them around to say what they went you to hear.

          • GINGER G

            WELCOME TO LIBYA, SYRIA, SAUDIA ARABIA, USSR, ETC. IT WOULD SEEM THE “PUBLIC OFFICIALS” FORGET FOR WHOM THEY WORK. THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE , HIDE NOTHING. IT IS NOT A “STING” THAT THIS POOR MAN COULD BLOW..THAT “LAW” HE SUPPOSEDLY BROKE IS INDEED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.PERHAPS ONE OF THE OFFICERS HAS A PERSONAL ISSUE. GOOD GRIEF!

          • rocky

            I agree with this statement. Some of the other statements aren’t helpful. I wouldn’t want to be a police officer, and some of the stuff they have to do I would bet most wouldn’t want to do either. I would think a recording of actual events of an arrest would support an officer if he is doing his job as he should. In some of these cases their only concern was to make sure no one was recording what they were doing and that was it. Why is it that having a recorder on a patrol car is okay but a citizen can’t do the same? That doesn’t make sence anyway you want to explain it, it doesn’t make sence.

        • MH

          I agree if the police are going by the book what do they have to worry about? If they can record us it should be our right to record them I keep thinking about Hitler’s police these cops seem to be leaning that way. It’s scary!!!!

          • United we stand

            Welcome to Obama country. This man can do and say anything he wants and there is nothing we can do about it. This is a hard working man and the law is puting him though the mill. And for what filming cops. I did not know that it was against the law. If they can film us I say we can film them. Know one is above the law unless if its the people that makes the law. people has know rights in this country. Unless you are on Obama team or if you work for the law enforcement. Just let this man go. He has a life two. And if people thats in law enforcement would go bye the law they would not have to worry about someone filming them…

          • Evan

            Big brother wants to watch YOU, but you can’t watch HIM.
            Frankly, if I were a citizen in any of the places in which this occurred I’d enlist the citizenry to get the elected officials to enforce CONSTITUTIONAL law. If not I’d have them replaced.
            When officials are in office who support CONSTITUTIONAL law, I’d then have them weed out officers who seem concerned that they might be recorded doing their job, placing them in positions such as town dog-catcher at pay commensurate with it.
            If they don’t like it they can resign.
            And if the Police union doesn’t like it, then they can do their jobs without their weapons since I’d see that NO weapons could be carried on one’s person in public except to or from a vehicle. Then the officers would be on a similar footing as are those honest, law-abiding persons who ARE exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL rights to use recording devices in public places.

        • smack dab

          Ya think ???Doing Unlawful things ? The COPS ! No way !! That’s about all they do is unlawful things and the courts back them 100% Time for a NEW Government !!!!!!!

      • http://MSN Mike Stone Sr

        I’m serious as a heart attack, it appears that our country is in danger of an “authoritarian” takeover! If the courts or the ACLU can’t or won’t save us, then we’ll have to defend ourselves, thanks to the second amendment , our “unamerican government” has second thoughts or we would already be under government dictatorship!

        • Catalacify

          I agree! They(law enforcement)should be held to the same laws as we are held to! The law enforcement is allowed to spy on us in everyway possible and do it secretly! Then when we publicly record them it is a felony? This is just twisted!

        • pilot

          Well first of all forget about the ACLU, their purpose is to deprive us of all freedom, — and essentially they approve of this type of activity, as long as it is used to quell freedom! Start out with communism, and then move foreward to today! If y0u are a “normal” red blooded american,- and especially white, you can forget any help from them, — uless it is some form of removing constitutiona freedoms! When I graduated (1957) about 14 out of my class went into law enforcement (out of 235)– 10 of them were the bullys,- to the best of my knowlege
          4 of them are dead,- one only lasted to 38 years old before somebody dusted him!.. 3 more in state “pen” (duty related “mistakes”). All the rest are retired! Note here that I never heard anything bad about the “non-bullys” ever having anything but compliments, and they are all retired now and still accepted “pillars of their commnitites”… Ther must be some correlation here!

        • ColoradoPatriot

          They are working behind closed doors, one step at a time, to dismantle the Republic and make the government Communist. Look at what has already been done, takeover of private business, dismantling of manufacturing, takeover of banks, mandated healthcare, bankrupting the country, the highest number of unemployed in the history of this country, super congress (which leaves over 95% of citizens with no representation), growing government by 25% in just 2 1/2 years, and the list goes on. I believe that there will be martial law before the 2012 election, Obama started planning for this a long time ago. During his campaign in 2008, he told an ABC newsman, that he wanted to be President of the world. See what is happening. He also has his civilian army training for the riots. Why do you think they are working behind your back to take all guns away from citizens? This is part of the Communist takeover, it happened in Russia and Germany. People need to wake up to what is happening, it really isn’t rocket science. Oh, by the way, the police officers are a part of Obama’s civilian army.

        • Jimmy

          WE ALREADY ARE

      • Bud

        You got that right.

      • http://yahoo.com Scottie

        Amen .They strap on a Gun and Badge , they get away with Rape /Murder / Lies /and Beating people with Club’s . They persume your Guilty from the start ..It’s a care of you scratch my back and I”ll scratch your’s .And as crooked as the day is long !!!

        • gene

          The police can legally lie to you but if you lie to them its a felony!!!! A lie is a lie is a lie, no matter who says the lie. The Police lie and cover there lies with more lies. Record a police Officer then read his report. He will twist everything and outright lie in his report. With out a recording you are in jail and convicted!!!! It has to stop.

          • Dwight Hill

            And you wonder why they want to stop us from videoing them . I never met a good cop in my life . Once a thief , always a thief .

          • Rulken

            There is a lot of truth to what you are saying. Police feel that they have to protect their actions even at the cost of lying to cover it up, they don’t want to admit that they may have made a mistake and look foolish. Of course, just the opposite is the truth, we all make mistakes, and policemen are not exempt from being human. Those that do admit making a mistake, are so much more credible in our eyes.
            Of course then there are the “bullies” who just have to prove to everyone that they are the “boss” and heaven help anyone, that would question their judgment!
            I believe that this is the “element”, that we are talking about here. I don’t know the answer for weeding them out except, putting cameras in all the police cars, and all the courts, and give the public access to them all. Of course we would also need a special prosecutor, with the authority to put everyone from the policeman, to the judge in jail for breaking the law, or overstepping their authority. Oh yeah, he would only have to answer to the “people of any community”, at a public or city hall meeting.
            Surrrrrre,,, that’s going to happen!!

          • beretta45cal

            Gene, you hit the nail on the head, but they not only lie to people they plant drugs and I have actually seen 2 off duty go to there car and smoke pot and I also know a guy that was busted for 17 oz’s and in a court they say he just had 13oz’s. We have one here now in good ole Tenn. that is being investigated for planting pot in people’s cars.
            Leagalized Crimanals!

        • Marine Mom

          I have police in my family. Since we are good people, we are not thugs who strap on a gun and badge and go out to harm people. I resent anyone that talks about the police like this. But, I do know some police that are just plain bad. These bad ones need to be looked at, and the ones that hired them, do too. Let’s face it, the pay isn’t much considering the harm they face daily. Today, the police are looked down on. But this isn’t so surprising: remember how teachers, policemen, etc used to be the upstanding members of our communities? The low lifes, and their lawyers are the reason that our communities are all screwed up. When there became more criminals than good guys, the lawyers made a fortune. This made fewer and fewer people willing to become police. And now, the police are the thugs, so some believe. I wish every thug had to go out and defend his turf with just a badge to separate him from the idiots. I don’t know why some police use force like we see now, but a lot has to do with the criminals being on drugs and just born stupid to begin with.

          • Joan

            Think where we would be without them. There are bad cops but you can chalk that up to bad leadership.

          • Dwight Hill

            Another ” my family is a good people ” , and that’s what you think . First of all , being a cop is not as dangerous as you think it is . They rank in the middle of the pack . And , most of the time , is spent on writing tickets , at average , if they write 4 tickets , in their first two hours of their shift , the rest of the shift , is sent in writing the reports of those tickets . Secondly , it is said that if you want to be a good cop , you have to be a thief , before joining . And that’s true . Which means , once a thief , always a thief . This is why they won’t let us to tape them , right ? If they were doing the job that they were trained to do , they wouldn’t have any problem of us taping them , right or wrong ? It’s not the ” low life and the lawyers ” in our communities , it’s the cops that are in our communities and what they are up to . That’s that’s the problem . And , I bet you said that Bush was taking our rights when he was the president , have you ever had a good look at Comrade Obama , lately ?

          • Rulken

            Your excuse for NOT, doing what you swore an oath to do, just doesn’t hold water.
            A police officer has to take the abuse, that the criminal dishes out, it comes with the job. The courts are the ones that are suppose to delve out the punishment. It is a crime to resist arrest, a crime to assault an officer, all punishable by imprisonment, none are punishable by a cop beating and/or abuse, or lying, to cover up said actions!
            Don’t give us that crap that your not that well paid, yes you are and you can retire after only 20 years in most instances, with your health and medical coverage paid for life!
            That shouldn’t even be an issue here! No one forced you to take the job. Right?

          • smack dab

            You KNOW BAD COPS ?? Why haven’t you have something done about it ? You say your family cops are Sooo law abiding and are Good cops ,then you and your cop family are the first problem ! The people that know and don’t do a damn thing to fix the problem are THE PROBLEM. Every cop I see today is self serving and I’m sure your do nothing wronge cop friends and family are NO different. When one Bad Cop does wronge and the rest go along with them,then they are “all” Bad Cops !!! Just the Facts .

          • beretta45cal

            Well Marine Mom, I don’t understand you! There’s good and bad in all professions, some people can handle stress and some can’t but all criminals are born stupid, so you are calling Mr. Hussein stupid, you’re calling cops stupid and lawyers and politicians and the list goes on are all just legalized stupid criminals with no common sense, HERE’S what makes a person smart (COMMON SENSE AND KNOWLEGE OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE).

          • Brian Bozo

            You and your family knew the risk and the pay rate before you snapped on that badge or holstered that gun, so don’t even go there. The expectation of privacy is NOT involved here. Anything that you can see from the street is fair game for viewing ,taking picture of or video of…even if it is your own home without the shades closed. These are not my words but the words of Judge approx. 2 years ago when the issue came up about a guy who had his photo taken and later published to embarass him…so no the cops have no case, no class and a huge insecurity problem.

          • http://ConservativeByte notassmartastherestofyou

            Those bad ones are just as likely to be your family as anyone else’s. Too pious to have bad seeds in your family? That’s the cops’ attiyude as well; they can do no wrong. Go back to posting stuff on liberal sites.

          • Jimmy

            YEAH , BUT THE TRUTH IS ,, THE POLICE ARE MADE TO BELEAVE THEY ARE DOING A GOOD JOB,,IF THEY WAS ,IT WOULD BE NO PROBLEM BEING RECORDED, THEY NEED BETTER TRAINING ON HOW TO ACT.

          • Dan

            The way to combat this problem is to MASSIVELY OVERLOAD the “System” . . .

            By this I mean that EVERYONE should immediately start VIDEO-RECORDING and AUDIO-RECORDING Law Enforcement personnel and activities on a CONTINUAL and ONGOING BASIS . . . It will be IMPOSSIBLE for them to enforce their TRUMPED-UP “LAW” . . .

            If possible, rig you camera to transmit via up-link, so it will not matter if they try to confiscate, erase, or destroy the data . . . It will already have been DISTRIBUTED !!!

            In my opinion, the ONLY COPS who DESERVE RESPECT are the ones who EARN IT . . . Not just the EGO-MANIACS or the PSYCHO JACK-BOOTED THUGS who DARE to call themselves Police Officers !!!

        • CL

          And in Eastern Ohio-near Akron the cop threatened to shoot a citizen cause he had a permit to do what the constitution guarantees.

          And we get into line to jump thru the hoops-and pay lots of $$$.

        • http://None Corrina

          That’s why they are called Pigs. I can’t stand them.

          • JC

            Shame on you…

      • icetrout

        There are way’s of recording that wouldn’t draw their attention. Seem’s like most of these vids are done with the intention of pissing the police off.Like tcops loose face if their being OWNED by a citizen.lol

      • VOTE LOUD

        Compare our military with local police!

        Our soldiers, airmen and sailors are loyal to, and educated about our Constitution and their family and communities.

        Unfortunately, too many in police service live to replicate the cops image reality shows on tv.

        Our military will never turn (as a total group) against the American public.

        Not sure about the police!

        SAD!

        • Dwight Hill

          I don’t know if your old enough , but , can you remember Kent , Ohio in the early ’70′s , and Nixon ? 4 students were shot dead , from the National Guard . When they only wanted to march on what Nixon did , and he didn’t want any people want to start turn against him . I do believe that he had to step down about what he did , about a year later , or so . It was a dark day in America that day . But , the cops are acting a lot like that , ” we are the law , and this is the law ” . The thing about this though , is that if they did the job the way they were trained to do , they wouldn’t have any problem of us taping them . And that’s the problem , they know they are wrong .

          • Todd

            Watergate was what led to Nixon stepping down. It had nothing to do with Kent State. The students were protesting the American invasion in Cambodia. It was the governor, not Nixon, who got the national Guard involved and he did so because of the rioting. Not all of the rioters were peaceful. They lit campus buildings on fore, there was looting…it was chaos. Two of the students killed weren’t even taking part in the riot..they were just walking to class.

            In regard to your comment;
            “The thing about this though , is that if they did the job the way they were trained to do , they wouldn’t have any problem of us taping them . And that’s the problem , they know they are wrong .”
            That’s correct.

          • Rich

            I remember the Kent state event too. If the students had not been throwing bricks at the guardsmen, I doubt they would have been shot. You throw bricks at me, and I will tell you now, I will retaliate against you. These people weren’t sticking flowers in the ends of rifles, so don’t sugar coat it.

          • Joe

            First, cops need to be reigned in. They are paid far too much, for the risk compared to the US military.
            For example a military persomn spends 20 to 30 years in the service puting his /her life, body parts and blood
            on the line, and if they live thru it, they receive about 1/5th the in retirement that a local retirement cop gets.
            There is no way that the average career cop is put in harms way, as is the average career military personnel.
            Oh, the military retiree must pay a portion of their retirement pay for medical benefits. While I,m at it, military
            retirees and their dependent (Spouse) was promised medical benefits at no charge to them if they served for
            20 years, and qualified for retirement. The government reneged on the contract after the military retiree had
            fullfilled their part of the contract, thus swindleing the military retiree and his dependent out of their earned
            bernefits. America must somehow take back America. It is critical, that w3e understand that: Communism
            leads to Totalitarianism which leads to a police state. Judges and the police are now dictators.

          • Joe

            These “college students” at kent state were thugs, that were attacking the guardmens with medal spiked
            objects. The guardmen were all exonerated,rightly so, the only thing missing is that they should have
            been decorated.

      • ScarletDove

        Some of them are, I saw a display of aggression by an officer who lives in my neighborhood, he did not like my neighbor’s driving and acosted him when he pulled up in front of his home, frished him and started yelling like a banshee. Called other officers for backup and made a complete fool of himself. The neighbor did nothing but piss off an officer with a short fuse. This officer is not to be trusted. Yet they do nothing about illegal aliens here. So yes, regular citizens can be harrassed, yet criminals and illegals are treated better than decent citizens. Montgomery County, Maryland.

        • http://ConservativeByte.com ?

          Your location says it all.

          • mickey2

            The location has nothing to do with it. I don’t live in that state but I did witness a man really yelling at two young kids (probably did do something stupid) but the man kept on. I thought I would ask someone to call 911 but then he id’d himself as a cop.

            It is hard to get the bad guys out. Another cop is into dealing big time, reporting him to the Feds only resulted in “we need to get him some help”. Meantime, the whistle blower is unprotected. A prosecutor beat his wife numerous times which the hospital refused to report (to whom? him???). Another group of cops entered a friend’s house, wrote down all the numbers off the electronics, two years down the line, the cops charged the friend with stolen property (which they, themselves kept).

            When we were kids, the cops threatened to tell our parents, lol, those days are over.

      • http://ConservativeByte.com ?

        I run in to quite a few Cops. After talking to a friend of mine who is a SGT on the city Police force and another cop who has over 20 yrs on the job, I have come to the conclusion that many of the younger cops are Anti-Gun and abuse their authority.

    • Michael

      Do you just now think we are becoming a police state?
      Yes, probably since the Civil War!

      • MiMi

        And there are MORE corrupt ones than good ones…in my own opinion….they stick together and testilie….they have figured it all out…abuse of power…..with a badge and a gun….that’s it….

        • NancyJ

          This is just another example of abuse of power.
          What else would you expect from the state that gave us Obama.

          • ruth

            this is all because of obama, it’s called control.

          • uzitiger

            Illinois is rotten to the core with their corruption. They gave us the Obamanable Muslim and the Daleys.

      • Lucille Schmidt

        Yep, we are on the way to becoming controled by government police and I can assure you Obama will the be next president, no matter what it takes. This country is on its way out as we know it today

        • Mike Travis

          Lucille:
          We are only out if we do nothing but talk and send emails. We must ACT if we are to restore our Constitutional Republic. So will the readers ACT or just talk?
          I joined a Constitutional Militia. I filed a Criminal Complaint against Oscama charging him with crimes including TREASON.

          So are you just going to talk, or will you ACT? Here is one thing you can do: http://thejaghunter.wordpress.com/a-sample-letter-anyone-can-write-naming-obama-in-commission-of-treason-click-here/

          If you will not act, then you might as well go home and wait for the new gestapo to come for you, which they will.

          • Catalacify

            Also you can vote Ron Paul for president! Research him and tell everyone you know to vote for him. Ron Paul is against this sort of thing.

          • Dwight Hill

            And how’s that complaint is doing ? It’s going nowhere and fast . Why ? Did you ever wonder why it took so long for Comrade Obama to come up with his birth certificate ? And , by the way , his first one was the short form that his own party said that it’s good enough for them , and then it took a billionaire to make him come up with the long form , but , again , it wasn’t the long form , it was only a letter from Hawaii , so , he still haven’t come up with the form . Maybe , in 25 years they will make it to the court . Maybe .

        • gene

          The citizens of Illionois should all get together and follow the police and film them, dozens of people filming at the same time. Then dare them to arrest them. It is legal almost everywhere in the USA and it is your Constitutional right to film them.

          • VOTE LOUD

            AMEN!!!!

          • Dwight Hill

            What they should do , is tell them that they are ” journalists ” , and post it on their own Blog . The courts have said that it’s journalist , having a Blog . That’s all they need .

        • George

          IF “not a single person in congress has the cajones to vote yea should impeachment come to a vote, and “the marxist muslim in our White House has the liberal media to cover him in a positive manner every minute of every day, he has Chicago thugs to take care of anyone that gets in his way, he has George Soros’ billions to pay his way out of anything and everything, and “members of Congress have received death threats if they try to remove the little zero from office, and Reid will never allow the issue to go before the Senate for a vote,” THEN we will not see an “election” in 2012, and OUR NATION IS NO LONGER FREE!! IT’S TIME TO TAKE MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS!!!

      • Granpaw

        The Civil War is merely the event that cemented the “precedent” that has allowed the Federal Government to continually erode our freedoms; the country was actually put on the wrong path by the time we lost the Generation of heroes who fought for and gained those freedoms and established a system that was supposed to assure those freedoms were maintained. Within about 50 years, dishonest people and well-meaning misguided people began taking away our freedoms in exchange for gaining a momentary security or for solving an egregious behavior that they were too timid to face head-on, without the intervention of the government.
        We got off track the first time someone said “there oughta be a law…”.

        • StrokerMcgurk

          Interesting concept.

        • Catalacify

          Vote for Ron Paul! President 2012!

          • VOTE LOUD

            Love Ron… but he is wrong about Iran…

            Can’t vote for Ron… too much danger at the tip of a nuclear missile!

          • Libertarian

            Years ago, there was a kid in the neighborhood that was ALWAYS in trouble with the law, and all of his high school buddies were the same way, class bullies and the whole works. To make a long story short, they all wound up as cops. My apologies to any good cops out there, but it seems there’s just a hairs width of difference between the average cop and the average thug. Maybe not even that much. . .

          • http://www.realcolorwheel.com/end.htm Don Jusko

            Hey Vote Loud, stay the h… out of other countries biz. Keep our own country strong. We invented the nuk, used it when we didn’t have to and now you want to say nobody else can have it. I have news for you, with the open border and Mexican cartels trading guns for Hamas’s access to our Arizona in-roads to receive muslin 10% cash donations for jihad we are already letting in terrorists. We can’t even control our own borders and you want to become the world police. It would fall right in line if you wanted to be part of the UN and part of NWO. Protect the USA from inside, bring the troops home like Ron Paul says. You do-gooders make me sick.

        • Larry Anderson

          Civil War reversed many constitutional concepts. Power to the People first, then to the closest to the people, the community, city, county, then the State, only then after exhausted or unable, there was a very small standing federal army. The Civil War established a large standing army, power of the Federal Government over any state, over any county, city or person. People lost that war, government lost. Slavery an issue that would have been settled very shortly without bloodshed as it was throughout the rest of the world, including all of south America, etc. was an ecconomical necesity to rid slavery anyway, and all slavery was not black, slavery still exists in many countries, especially the Middle East. Politics and media portray what they want, education is controlled by those in power, our ignorance and lack of personal power and desire to preserve family will destroy what is left of this country soon. Parents, mothers and fathers now, need baby sitters so year round schools, longer, more days, etc. with social and political issues to force and brainwash, it is not the education of the last decades but a new order and outcome to destroy individualism, responsiblity and belief or knowledge of constitution and rights for the individual. Our local cops blindly enforce, what would the cops do if were under Hitler’s Germany? Follow their leaders and corruption against the people!

          • Dwight Hill

            And this is what Comrade Obama is looking for . He is telling the kids of today that they are the one’s to show how your parents need . I remember that it was the parents who showed their kids how they need . A lot of people thought that what Bush did when he was in the White House , was taking away our rights . But , if you took a good look at Comrade Obama lately ? He is trying to take everything from us . And that is why the cops think they can’t do any wrong . Look at what judges he is putting in the courts these days .

        • AnyD

          Granpa: I get upset when anyone says, “The Government Should step in….” about a problem. We are forgetting about the press. They gin up stories and make nothing seem like the end of the world, then We the Sheeple say “The government ought to step in… ” and they do and the non problem becomes a huge problem and the Sheeple say, We need more government…
          Ronald Reagan said it. “The governemnt isn’t the solution, they are the problem.”

      • SKEPTICAL

        NAHHH! Iffen those uppity southern representitives hadn’t decided to violate the soveriegnty of the Union (in between a’pickin and a grinnin between the toes) and attempt to ilicitly seceed, the Northern champions of the Federal Union would not have had to wage war. The Union is not an open marriage, with your cousin or not.

        • Larry Anderson

          You have been brainwashed by your own educational system, know little or nothing of reality of that time or people or constitution.

          • http://www.realcolorwheel.com/end.htm Don Jusko

            Good for you Larry, if we don’t get rid of Obama (arrest him) we may just have to secede from his union before it comes to a Mexican, American, Canadian Union. Do you hear that Skeptical? It is an open marriage.

            Show the latest Supreme Court ruling that show States and individuals have sovereignty.

        • VOTE LOUD

          I Attendered a gbberments skool…. kant yousens tells?

    • hickerbilly

      if they didn,t have something to hide they wouldn,t care. more bullies with a badge.

      • Catalacify

        Ron Paul for president! He will nip it in the bud!

        • VOTE LOUD

          Sounds like Obama Koolaid…

          The messiah!

          Need no more!

    • Robert Nettles

      Try this one, it should get you were you want to go.

      http://www.infowars.com/man-faces-life-in-jail-for-recording-police/

    • A_Nobody

      Simply well said. If they’re in public, it’s legal. They should be the ones facing prison for their actions.

      • ruth

        for sure!

    • Dana

      Besides the fact, a public employee in a public venue has no expectation of privacy. If government entities can video public places, so can the public.

      • Catalacify

        Exactly!

      • MH

        I like the way you think public is public.

    • patriot2

      this is getting to be like the UK,people can’t do anything while the criminals & muslims just yell discrimination & they’re let go.bull!

    • UglyAngel

      A cop friend once told me that cops have problems dealing with normal citizens because 95% of the people they deal with on a daily basis are dirtbags while 95% of citizens are good, law-abiding people. Bullying cops are a problem…to themselves and to the rest of us. Cops seem to get away with shooting people with minimum provocation and I have personally seen (as a jury member) a case lost because a cop tried to embellish his testimony. I also know of a murderer who got off because of perjured testimony by a cop. I live in Spokane, WA and the police here are on the hook for beating a mentally disabled man to death because they claim he threatened them with a plastic Pepsi bottle. The cop who starred in that little drama is facing a Federal trial for his actions.
      We deserve better for our tax dollars.

      • VOTE LOUD

        Turn off the COPS TV shows and restart Andy of Mayberry…

        Nah… we are now living in the enlightened Progressive Age of America!!!

        Thank you ACLU A@@es!

        VOTE TORT REFORM!

        VOTE LOUD 2012

        ~ ! ~

        • http://www.realcolorwheel.com/end.htm Don Jusko

          That’s the smartest I’ve heard you say, get tort reform on the ballot.

        • smack dab

          Oh by the way , Good O’l Andy and for that matter little Opie and even there little buddy the Fon’s are all Obutthead backers. They are even putting out comericials to promote the Re-Election of Barry O’butthead ! Just for your info.

      • Dwight Hill

        This goes to what the president , excuse , the so-called president is saying , ” I want the biggest civil army of the world ” , and by taking the guns if the people , like Britain did . You can’t have a cop to stop a thug from killing , but that same cop will arrest you for taping him for beating a person for looking funny at him . What’s wrong with that picture ?

        • Todd

          Bingo!!! Right on Dwight!

    • R. Cook

      As an ex law enforcement officer retired in 19192 I have seen a disturbing trend in law enforcement training. It is most obvious in “swat type team training”. The police have always been considered a quasi-military organization but this ideology has begun to take a wrong turn. In the military soldiers have to be trained to kill. It is a well-known psychological fact that the taking of another human life is a very difficult choice to make. Soldiers are trained to dehumanize the enemy during war. This allows them to subjugate their natural aversion in using deadly force.

      Even in 1992 when I retired I began to notice police training aimed at creating an “us versus them? attitude. Civilians were being dehumanized. The result is an increase in the divide between the public and law enforcement. The police have a very difficult job but they should still subscribe to the motto “to protect and serve”. The trend toward trying to stop citizens from taking videos of the police is the latest demonstration of this elite ideology. A police officer who is trained that he or she is a member of some elite force promotes this type of activity.

      The answer is to file false arrest charges either criminally or in civil court. If a police officer uses force to take a person into custody when they know a crime has not actually been committed there are two laws that apply. They are false arrest and assault under color of authority. Maybe a few large jury awards will put a brake on this activity.

      • R. Cook

        oops retired in 1992

      • Catalacify

        We need to vote in a congress that upholds the constitution and protects American citizens and their unalienable rights. Not the globalists and corporate puppets. We need Ron Paul for president!

      • VOTE LOUD

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    • ThomNJ

      John Galt – I agree with your perceptions. It seems with far to many things the police take an attitude that they are being attacked in some way, shape or form. I work with a bunch of ex-cops/detectives/FBI types and I bear no animosity towards them. Are they often less trusting than you or I – most likely – because of what they saw through their careers. Yet I won’t defend the belligerence by some – I have met policemen who, for some reason, walk about with a chip on their shoulders all of the time. Some of it I have perceived as arrogance and some as a result of the weariness borne of being persecuted by the press and the lawyers over and over again. I don’t have a solution for how to stop this, but arresting folks for filming is absurd – no matter how much the officer does not like it – AND any judges not throwing a filming case out is also absurd. If a person is not actually interfering with the police officer’s work, they have no right to accost the person filming.

    • Hugh

      My thoughts of John Gants comments is sounds like our Congress and the rest of the federal goverment.

    • Laura

      State if Illinois ???? Ovomit’s training ground !!! what do you expect besides “strong-arming” people.

    • Vicki

      I absolutely agree with you, John. Seems like it’s shades of the gestapo. Really scary how we are losing freedom and our rights a little at a time. Not so anyone would notice… Just a comment.

    • jim

      What else would you expect from ole barry’s state filled with Criminals, Gangsters and Liars! He has some of his cronies with him in Washington, surprise, surprise!!

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    • minnie

      This is obamas STATE, HE WAS A SENATOR IN THIS STATE. iS THIS HOW HE WANTS IT TO BE, IT APPEARS LIKE IT. It appears like we have to clean house in all levels of government.

      • Ralph

        Yes Minnie there is alot of house cleaning coming up

    • Ralph

      You got it right John

      • Todd

        Ditto!

    • e4NOW

      Police self serving? What’s new? Congressmen, Teachers, Unions!
      What has become of the customer for whom all these people hold jobs?
      Corruption reigns now that Chicago has taken over the US government.
      What is needed is freedom – to choose in a capitalist, free enterprise system!
      The society-destroying public school system with the Politburo Department of Education indoctrinating our children will disappear when we take back our nation with competition in education starting with vouchers.
      We must get rid of the nation-destroying Gestapo IRS in favor of the Fair Tax like Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan where all have a stake in the nation.
      With IRS compliance costs half a trillion dollars along with Medicare corruption and waste, illegal alien expense, and so much more, trillions are wasted every year!
      So, why are we suffering in bondage of recession? It is intentional with the boom lowered through Chris Dodd and Barney Frank and their Fannie/Freddie bankruptcy of the world with Herr Obama leading the Black Caucus in the matter, the same Black Caucus that stirs up strife, no doubt led by Herr Obama, to keep The People divided and hating one another with Alinsky “Rules for Radicals” attempts at discrediting/ridiculing/destroying us (the “racist” “lynching” “Jim Crow” Tea Party “terrorists”). [No mention is made of Andre Carson being not just a part of the Black Caucus but also one two abusive Muslims in Congress of which we are not to speak because of the unconstitutional Political Correctness!]
      Division and chaos [Cloward-Piven] are their game led by the Trojan Horse who took over Washington with all promises broken regarding such wonderful sounding “Hope and Change.” How is this different from the founding of Nazi Germany?

    • Mom of 5

      this is for John Galt:

      That link is up and running now – along with a more on the Allison case. You’re right in your assessment of the facts. Take care!

    • Greg

      John is completely correct, the police are always pulling over people rushing to work, not to be late, and never do the job we pay them for. What about the street gangs that have more fire power than they do ? These gangs push drugs and stolen property and so much more, some gangs have a lot of money, Question ; are they paying off the PD ? I have seen 5 State police cars protecting an Obama highway job within 1/4 of a mile, what’s wrong with this picture ???? And a lot of them are probably on overtime. This country is turning into a police state , while our government stabs us in the back, and what is with all the Illegals getting the good life and becoming American citizens. We are paying for this all, we all need to get another 2nd job ASAP ! More of our armed forces are dying in that war in the Middle East (that’s in the news again), why are they not at home protecting our over run boarders, these illegals take our jobs and a lot carry in drugs with them. Time to pink slip all our people in government, or just stick your head in the sand and let it happen. Our military is still in the Middle East for one reason and one only, to make our Rich people richer, or have you figured that out yet ?

    • Southerner

      John, the problem is that there is such a big shift in who the police actually are anymore. Just like our educational system there has been a systematic and organized change over to a new era. Back in the 40′s, 50′s, and 60′s someone who had a good standing in the community could become a Deputy Sheriff, or Police Officer and were respected by the public. Now it is so different! Because the police of those days were at large respected by the public and protected the public. However we have a new generation in place now and they are exactly as the Supreme court has established “Law Enforcement Officers” and Not “Commissioned Officers of the Peace”. They are taught today that their job is to enforce the laws…and not to protect the rights of citizens! In fact your rights are totally dependent upon policy more than law today! Let me give you a clear example….Law enforcement today are instructed to arrest the smaller guys who deal with drugs instead of going after the bigger dealers as they did in the past decades. Why? So that they can fill the rehabilitation systems! 1 out every 8 Americans have been in some form of rehabilitation facility for everything from drunk driving, behavioral problems or drugs. If you had told someone in past decades this would be the way it is they would have told you that you are completely insane, that could never happen, not in America! Well it has! Worse than all of this Big Brother wants everybody with a record and in the SYSTEM! Since when did making quotas become Law Enforcement? The Police of past decades would have walked off the job for what the police officers of today do as a normal part of their function. All of this together has resulted in the disrespect of Law Enforcement Officers and the general degradation of the obedience of citizens of the law. Now for the next step….For Law Enforcement to become the thugs of the State! With the Leadership we have today that is a very scary situation!

    • Certified American

      Sorry to say but no one works for the American taxpayers! It has never been so clear as this administration has made it! Our labor just provides their salaries and “all the money” for whatever they want (and some to stuff in their pockets and their friends’ pockets!)

      We have been force-fed the idea that these are “our employees.” In reality, we are only the “workers,” whose profits from our labor are confiscated(not constitutional.) It just helps to keep us in-line if we are made to think we have some control over those that make the rules.

      Suddenly, Americans are waking up and finding out that while we were stuck to the boob-tube, we are no longer relevant! City, state and federal governments are out-of-control and we live in what is close to a “police state,” that no longer cars what we think! When government, at any level, does not respond to the “will” of citizens, freedom is disappearing. Total power corrupts totally!

      To the point, when police are arresting an innocent citizen, doing something perfectly legal, and it becomes a legitimate criminal charge on its way to court, we have no freedom! We are being threatened and terrorized by our federal government.. state and local governments, as well. The EPA, the Unions, the Police, the president, city officials, the DOJ, the TSA, and many more demonstrate that we are no longer a free people.

      Gibson Guitar was just raided by Federal Wardens, with guns drawn (you know those guitar makers are a dangerous bunch,) their business was shut down, and they were charged with using “illegal wood” to make their guitars. (I can think of much worse offences that are being ignored and even promoted by government.)
      Even though they have documentation of legal purchases of wood, the Feds are attempting to put them out of business and in jail….unless they want to move the business to Malaysia! Tell me that there is not a “gangster mentality,” in all aspect of government!

      Americans are under, “Gangster Rule.” These gangster politicians, unions, police, etc., are going after any individual or business they don’t like (those not supporting the regime) or feel is in the way… usually the productive citizens. These Gangsters are unleashing illegals, criminals, the insane, the pedophiles, etc., on the honest, hard-working population….and it is part of the government’s plan to breakdown the morality, the Constitutional law, the financial system, and freedom.

      These attacks on honest citizens are going on across the country, even rogue states (those exerting “states rights”) are being sued for enforcing federal law.. No matter how small, one individual or a large business, these instances are symptoms of a much larger problem in this country.

      • nonni

        Sadly you are correct. Wake up, stop watching reality tv and get ready to do something. Make people aware, vote, and realize that this is the beginning of Nazi America.

    • Jonathan Gartner

      This is not disputing what you are saying however this is not always the Officers fault. Liberals want to isolate the Police and make them feel threaten. An example of this is in Grand Rapids where the Mayor called officers “Jackbooted Thugs” liberals want to control law officers (along with everything else) so they go by their rules of isolating and ridiculing to destroy them many of the officer doing their jobs are frighten that if they step wrong (by liberal standards) that they will lose their jobs or be persecuted by the local DA (yes I spelled it correctly) others that go hard core (such as in AZ) because of high visibility in public eye are fighting liberals. So in the end I do not defend what is going on but there is a explanation if we know what to fight its half the battle.

      • Certified American

        It is the officers’ fault, if they are arresting an innocent man, doing something they don’t like, but that is perfectly.. legal!
        They were intimidated and it threatened them in some way… They want to prove a point….

        Sure, cops get a “bad wrap,” sometimes. They use illegal force that is “deserved,” on occasion… Anyone will get frustrated dealing 24/7 with “bottom feeding scum.” But, when the officials try to sentence a man to 75-years in prison, just to intimidate other citizens, there are more problems that just the arresting officer. It goes all the way to the top! These are the policies that are being implemented by our gangster government. They punish and reward…to their own end, and it filters down to the individual on the streets. Quote: “We are going to reward our friends and punish our enemies!”

    • handyman

      This is the United States of America. The free Country, where citizens of the Republic rule and the poilice are under the rule of the citizens, not illegal alleinas and muslimes!!!

      • Certified American

        Right now, citizens are not ruling…anything! They are totally irrelevant and will remain so until people take action!

    • Jammalamma

      Illinois is the same state where the nurse went to prison when she retrieved a crying botched abortion from the dipsy dumpster instead of allowing it to die in there.

    • Tea Leaf

      There are bad cops just like there are bad citizens, sorry fact of life. I would rather have the police between me and the criminal element. No excuses, get rid of bad cops! By the same token until you have walked in the man’s shoes, it is easy to criticise. All that said, anyone doing a public job should be able to stand up to the scrutiny of a video camera. If you must hide (exceptions- undercover, high security, Etc.) to do your job, you are probably guilty of not doing your job correctly!

    • Dano in Texas

      The same can be said of our President and U.S. Attorney General!

  • Chris

    We have lived in a police state for more decades than I have been alive, I would have to say since the Civil War, maybe earlier. It is just becoming more obvious these days, that is all!!

    • Martin

      Bingo! Well said. As Gus said in Lonesome Dove
      , “That’s enough. Aye God that is enough!”

    • John

      I say screw the damn courts. Our system is so broke, it is pathetic. I have no faith in the system at all.

      • Keith

        I’ve got a documented case where U.S. District Court Judge Robert Whaley dismissed a lawsuit against the American Dental Association, but gave no findings of facts and/or conclusions of law justifying the dismissal.

        Then, when the case was refiled, he intercepted it and ordered all federal judges in the state of Washington to refuse to accept any filings from the plaintiff in the case. Kinda sounds like obstruction of justice and denial of due process since the damages far exceeded $20.00.

        That’s just one more piece of evidence as to how corrupt our judicial system has become. It matters not that dentistry was breaking the law in violation of restraint of trade, or the fact that they are denying people their common law Right to labor at their chosen occupation; an occupation that four empirical reports show represents no known potential for harm to anyone. Also, the judge just ignored the defendants refusal to furnish the court and the plaintiff with any empirical evidence showing there to be any justification for their acts.

        • MiMi

          They have their own SET OF LAWS AND RULES…to go by…
          and they make them up as they see the need to do so…just like attorneys….there are a lot of them…and only a few good ones….I just haven’t found one yet….

        • UglyAngel

          I find it very interesting how state and local authorities allow Federal Judges to run roughshod over them and their laws. Here’s an idea. The next time one of these arrogant Federal Judges overturns a state or local law, jerk his butt off his bench, arrest him, handcuff him, and toss him in jail. No doubt such an action would raise a major stink but I’ll bet it will get some well needed attention.

        • CL

          Horrah for us-to hexx with you!!

          • Keith

            Too bad CL, you’re SOL. I’ve already got another lawsuit filed and it’s at the summary judgment phase and I’ll be very surprised if it doesn’t come down in my favor.

    • Mr. Right

      The cops, the fool in the Black House, the congress, the courts, they all think they are above the law. Laws only apply to us “little” people.

    • cw protecting

      That and the unquestionable support of police by the “badge lickers” giving cops free reign to do as the please. Cops are people just like the rest of us and have proven time and time again to be better criminals in some instances than the criminals themselves. This situation is akin to giving them free reign to operate in secret when they are doing it blatantly in public. Time for it to stop instead of making a perfectly good citizen an inmate.

    • Robert

      I agree, police have been abusing their athority for far too long. As a teenager, 36 years ago, I dropped some friends off a block from their homes. The were standing on the street corner at 1 am talking with some other friends when I drove off. After I had gotten out of sight two men that lived on the corner attacked one of the boys, 16 years old and pistol whipped him. The next day I went to pick him up and he was beat to hell. His eyes were beat shut. He told me what had transpired and I asked him what the cops had done to the two grown men, one 30 the other over 50. He told me they had not done anything to the two even though the woman on the other side of the street told the cops that the boys were only standing there talking when the men attacked them. Instead they arrested my friend and gave him 2 years probation. Get this, for cerfew violation!

      • patriot2

        A classic case of the law gone wrong,but wait till sharia law starts getting enforced,just be ready with enough ammo.

    • ruth

      no, not at all, it’s only since obama was elected, this is just a taste of what will be coming to the USA! vote obuma OUT, save AMERICA! wake up fools, wake up!

      • mickey2

        Nah, this was in CA many, many years ago. Pelosi thinks all the states should be like CA and all the lawsuits started it. Now every state is afraid of lawsuits and we do cowl to them.

        Why should someone be arrested for smoking a cigarette in a hospital parking lot? Who in the hospital breathes parking lot smoke????

        Because the fed gives dollars to the hospital and they will get sued or lose funding if anyone smokes on the grounds. About like the stupid “hot coffee” suit about McD’s–now we all have to drink luke warm coffeed.

  • Krhteaparty

    How about we quit paying their salaries….how bout them Apples!

    • Sanderson

      suggesting we take their lead, and pick and choose which laws and Constitutional rights we choose to follow or not?

      • GINGER G

        SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN..I”M FOR IT.

    • CL

      Cant do that- Their union protests and they get paid.

      • http://www.realcolorwheel.com/end.htm Don Jusko

        Would that be a gov. union? They are going to be reduced, it’s unconstitutional. Vote Ron Paul.

  • Krhteaparty

    Time to fight back….enough is enough….everyone needs to rise up peacefully and tell them they work for us

    • Mr. Right

      I’m afraid the time for peacefull protests may soon be coming to an end. The only reason we still have any rights left at all is because we have GUNS!

      • Chris

        You got that right…… Mr Right, I have been targeted by police because of my 2a views here is this messed up state called MD. Even when they can find no law to arrest me on Im threatned and told Im lucky im not going to Jail is all a Joke. Im sorry to say that I dont truse LEO’s anylonger and if they bring the fight to my family I will bring it to theirs.

        Eye for an Eye

      • ruth

        and hang on to them!

      • patriot2

        better keep them ready,& support the oathkeepers,I for one don’t want to fire on our own people but there are those that don’t care,they don’t mind if the un comes in to support the liberals.

      • Stanley

        You people have created this, now live with it! It’s a little late now to be waking up and getting mad! They know you people have a short memory and no backbone! They all know if you’re not a minority you’re just spreading idle threats! They’re not afraid of your little pop guns either! Haven’t you noticed they’re arming your enemy the Mexicans with weapons they better not catch you with! And you people are tooooo stupid and cowardly to know it! So crawl back in your holes and go back to sleep you’ve lost your country! If you behave yourself, maybe the’ll just put you on a resorvation!!!

        • Mr. Right

          What the hell have you been smoking Stan. It must be some really good sh*t. I used to be a arms dealer and if the time comes my little “pop guns” will come in very handy. Idiot!

          • Stanley

            They will step on you and your few backers and squash you like a bug!

          • http://ConservativeByte notassmartastherestofyou

            Stan must be a cop. He talks like one.

      • MH

        You are correct but we need more guns.

      • emerutil

        That will change. Most guns sold since the late 60s are registered, after all.

  • Bob Marshall

    What we have in America is the police acting as Gestapo.

    • Junebug

      They believe they are the law. A neighbor of mine was taking a shower during the day while no one else was home. The police came and when he did not answer the door they broke it down. He came out of the shower (naked) and the police knocked him to the floor, arrested him and handcuffed him. At the station they discovered that they had the wrong house. No attorney would take his false arrest case and the prosecutor hide when he went to see him. Oh yes my friend got to pay for a new door. Yes, we have a gestapo police state. You are guilty when accused and you must prove otherwise.

      • jack l eich

        the cops do not protect and serve,they harass , intimidate,murder citizens,kill their pets and family . they ususally bust in with no warrant either. no freedom in america. the drug war has empowered these nazis to attack americans!

        • patriot2

          And those aren’t even the private army that obama want’s.the obama doj with holder & homeland security with napolitano is branding almost every one of us as terrorists.kind of funny if you think about it,because the very people they brand as terrorists are the only patriots we have left!gun owners,JPFO,NRA,GOA,Oliver North,military,people watching the southern border,G Gordon Liddy,etc.thats probably because we don’t want an america like europe.It would actually be ironic if we had to bail europe out again,just like WW2,because they are the ones that don’t have any firearms left.(except the gov,the very people that do most of the killing of innocents.)

      • Dana

        He got off lucky. A young Marine in Arizona was shot 72 times by SWAT on a no knock, no warrant entry . Wrong house, no drugs, police and the dispatch did not call for an ambulance, even with the wife crying on the phone, till the man died.

        • mickey2

          CA has spread the poison.

          Wrong house seems to be a recurring theme, isn’t that what happened over the student loan episode?

        • Michael Katz

          If that’s true, the wife has a very good suit and will never have to work a day in her life again. It doesn;t bring the guy back but IF THE STORY IS EVEN TRUE I’d be surprised prosectors woiuldn;t prosecute the cips for not calling medical help, and the cops would lose their jobs, freedom, famaily, and homes. But just maybe the truth isn’t fully told here….? These stories show some mostly undeserved hatred of cops, but inidvidual bad cases happen. I know for a fact many of the generalizations are just bitterness, self imposed, reactionary. The problem is even unjustified hatred is just as damaging to the holder and their victimized. It is truly sad.

          • Dano in Texas

            What Dana says is true and factual. I recall when it happened. Don’t know what happened with his widow though.

      • ruth

        well we don’t have that here, yet. our police are like the old time police, talk to you wave as going by, and they know you. do something wrong thou, they will get you. but with the ass we have as president, that could change at any time.

      • Stanley

        Just like I said they will step on you people and your little pop guns and squash you like a bug! Your falilies, children, women, and neighbors will tell the authorities where you have your little pop guns hid! They will say that it’s for your own good! You people that think your super men, tug on Super Mans cape and see! Remember, like a bug!

  • Anonymous

    WTF?!!

  • borderraven

    Blame training and supervision.
    Educate people. I carry leaflets in my wallet for folks who question my rights to record and photo in public.
    Key phrase “reasonable expectation of privacy”

    • SG-1

      As regards training, it seems to me that many young people are graduating from police training with a type of arrogance seen only in the movies in the past. Having sat next to friends getting a ticket and on one occasion when getting a ticket myself, I was dumbstruck by the insinuations, accusations of stupidity and snide references to my career that turned me against ever wanting to support police. There are some good ones, to be sure but they seem to be more testosterone than good sense in many cases.

      In fairness, they have to deal with some real winners in their day-to-day operation but if it has tainted their picture of humanity, then they need to go pick another career. There is no excuse for approaching the driver of a car with an offensive attitude and slurring them, their IQ, their personality, etc. In short, it’s abusive. When you throw it back in their face, they get doubly belligerent and abusive, clearly indicating their contempt for people and the public they serve.

      My estimation is that it’s because of the notion how they’re taught to “take command” of the situation. During a traffic stop, they are not supposed to conduct themselves like DI’s talking to a boot. Yet they do. Few of them seem to be easygoing people and like to sport their “high and tight” haircuts and play the part of “badass” like they are in some movie. And perhaps that’s the crux of it right there; They themselves have watched too many VanDamme pictures and see themselves as “saving the world” and being very unappreciated. Though I am saddened when an officer loses their life in doing their duty, I am less inclined to be sympathetic due to some of the exchanges I’ve had with them in general. Tough job, takes a lot of character and self-confidence but those two character traits are simply being replaced with arrogance and obnoxious attitudes.

      • Mr. Right

        Well put SG. I was charged with obstructing an officer when I pissed off one of the little Hitler Youths that pulled me over for no reason. It was well worth the 5 days I spent in the county jail.

        • patriot2

          you might want to watch that,the clintons made it a lot easier to refuse to sell guns to people with minor infractions.hopefully newer legislation will take that kind of bull out but when they pass a law it’s hell to get rid of.I would like to make it legal to make new machine guns to add to the market,they are getting hard to find & so expensive.

        • Stanley

          Your one of the reasons they want to beat the hell out of you and others!

    • Legless

      Where can we get copies of the leaflet you are talking about?

  • Glenn Ward

    Rediculous.On duty officers are public officials.This guy should be set free & the law should be amended.They can record us (the people they sopposedly work for) bu we cannot record them? We cannot record the exact thing they are?

    • Dave

      The privacy laws stem from the 4th Article of the Bill of Rights, security from unwarranted search and seizure, accorded to persons as part of the US Constitution. It is to protect the people from unwarrant intrusioned from the government. The 4th Article does not protect employees in the workplace or visitors to premises from being recorded by the employer or premise protectors, whether WalMart, General Electric, or taxpayers and public in general. The workplace for government employees (e.g., officials including police, inventory or maintenance personnel) is wherever the government employees are operating as government employees or at government facilities should be subject to documentation to include recording by the public. To do otherwise, promotes abuse and corruption by government employees. Where it is illegal to document (record) the action of government employees, except in the case of bonafide National Security and court proceedings which have their means of documenting for the public, government abuse and corruption is already out of control and there is no transparency to counter the abuse and corruption getting worse.

      • mickey2

        National security is the excuse babies and old folks are stripped search at the airports. Everything is national security today because they can’t seem to find the real criminals. But hey, the illegals just got off.

  • Glenn Ward

    What we have here is a failure to communicate

    • Mr. Right

      I haven’t see a cop car lately that has not had a video camera mounted on the dashboard. Can we make a citizens arrest?

      • cw protecting

        Guess that depends on whether or not he is recording a police officer without his consent.

      • Robert

        They have removed the video cameras from cop cars in the State of Kentucky. Too many cops were getting caught by their own cameras and loosing court cases due to them lying.

      • Stanley

        Yea, the American has always failed to communicate for years! That’s why the foreigners and government will take over their country! Sorry about your luck!

    • Bruno Boccagalupe

      This action in the video is the reason cops get killed. A lot of them are just bullies and the PD gives them the venue to be what they want to be. Several of the cops in the video were berserk. How do you bring charges against them? It’s a “catch 22″ show the video to law enforcement and get charged with a crime. “To serve and protect” what a crock.

  • Aunt Jane

    This needs to go to the supreme court. Of course in our present police state it might be upheld. If this is upheld it is time for a revolution.

    • nancy

      “Needs to go to the Supreme Court”? Have you seen the rulings they’ve been making lately? You expect justice there? Think again!!!

      • cw protecting

        Well put!

      • MiMi

        There is NO JUSTICE IN AMERICA……NONE….it has gone to hell in a hand basket….and you know….it is ABOUT TO CATCH up with this country…..

      • http://www.realcolorwheel.com/end.htm Don Jusko

        I agree Sodamire?sp? is a bad apple bent on protecting Obama but look at was just passed.
        August 17, 2011 at 5:07 am
        This month in the Supreme Court guaranteed State and individual sovereignty. Surprise surprise. Our home is our castle.
        The lower courts will be following suit soon.
        Supreme Court, 5-31-11, Last week we won one of our biggest victories EVER at NumbersUSA!
        In the case of Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the Supreme Court ruled that states can revoke the licenses of businesses that do not use the federal E-Verify database to keep illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs.
        http://arizonateaparty.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3203237%3ABlogPost%3A258408&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

        July 2011, Supreme Court, STATE SOVEREIGNTY State sovereignty
        http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=211544
        “In short, a law ‘beyond the power of Congress,’ for any reason, is ‘no law at all.’ Nigro v. United States, 276 U. S. 332, 341 (1928). The validity of Bond’s conviction depends upon whether the Constitution permits Congress to enact (18 USC) §229. Her claim that it does not must be considered and decided on the merits.”
        Excerpts:
        “The Court of Appeals held that because a State was not a party to the federal criminal proceeding, petitioner had no standing to challenge the statute as an infringement upon the powers reserved to the States. Having concluded that petitioner does have standing to challenge the federal statute on these grounds, this Court now reverses that determination…
        Things are changing fast!

      • Stanley

        You people live in a delusional world! They make the rules and if you know what will happen if you don’t follow them! Ever notice when drivers see a cop on the freeway in the media how even though the people are going the speed limit they will slow down 50 to 15 MPH slower! A bunch of gutless wonders!

        • Stanley

          Correction 10 to 15 MPH slower.

        • emerutil

          That’s because pigs will pull you over even if you are at the speed limit. Remember, they are under pressure to issue tickets. If they do not meet their quota, they are in trouble. (I know they say there is no quota)

    • Senior Viking

      I think we’re heading for an unCivil War. Reading the posts and getting a feel in the news over all I see nothing else.
      True, law authories do have a sense of, above the constitution, entitlement.
      It may take some tragic incident to bring about the change we’re all looking for.

      I use to revere law officers. Today…not so much.

      Glad I’m old. I don’t like the changes I’m seeing.

      • Dano in Texas

        I am old too and I believe you may be right, Senior Viking. When people do not respect the rule of law, there will eventually be hell to pay! Just ask Wyatt Earp. That goes for Barry Soetoro and Eric Holder too!

    • Stanley

      Aunt Jane:
      The American public aren’t going to have any revolution! Too cowardly and they can’t pull themselves away from their sports, drugs and easy chair long enough! They have been asleep toooooo long! Don’t give them any false hope! That’s cruel!

      • http://ConservativeByte notassmartastherestofyou

        Someone needs to give Stanly a video camera and dump him at the police station. I getting sick of that un-American jerk.

        • Stanley

          Oh toooooooo bad!

        • Stanley

          I’m more American than you gutless wonders ever thought of being! I see and talk to people and they’re dumber than a sled load of poop! You just can’t take the truth! A bunch of blamers!!!!

    • beretta45cal

      Well Aunt Jane, court made lately? Mr. hussein owns the supreme court, I don’t know how old you are but that’s were alot of this police state started from way back in the 60′s, they have always gone against God’s word and they most likely couldn’t tell you squat about the King James Bible and could care less about the consitution!

  • J

    They won’t do a thing about the flood of illegals, and they continue to make this more of a state-dependent socialist institute sanctioning gestapo tactics to terrorize citizens. While I believe there are terrorists in other countries that wish harm upon us, I feel that the worst of them are those that wish to impose, refuse to fight, and openly support these practices. It was believed by our forefathers that it is the duty of the public and police to oppose such deplorable tactics.
    Talk about a double standard, we’ll film you but if you even think about it you’re as bad as a rapist.

    • Stanley

      You can’t blame the cops, they have the upper hand! Just like the Blacks! You can’t really expect them to give that up, now doooooooo you?

      • emerutil

        Good point!

  • Scott

    People don’t believe me when I say we already live in a police state. This is only the start of it. I hate most police. They are maladjusted losers that were picked on in school. Mostly out cast whimps and this is the way they think they can get back at the A-Types that picked on them.

    I know a few cops that are really good guys but they are non typical cops. One is a swat trainer and agrees with me and tells me that a lot of the kids that come out as rookies are mostly going to be problematic if they get caught getting out of line. (abuse of power) he also tells me that no cop can keep up with all of the new so called “laws”. They keep making new laws just to make money off of us and keeping us under control. POLICE STATE!!!!!

    I am leaving this “country” asap.

    • Sanderson

      We will live in a police state if we ALLOW ourselves to live that way. We, the people, have a voice and if we don’t speak up and fight back, they will push and pull us, and arrest us for breathing in the wrong place at the wrong time. America is worth fighting for, IS IT NOT?

      • Hubcap

        Rise and rise again…” keep a light on these cockroaches in charge. Especially the career politicians … write to your representatives and tell them this:
        It appears that officials in DC have started to run out of other peoples’ money. It also appears Congressmen and the Senators are joining arms (THE FEDERAL dysfunctional FAMILY) because they know we are voting all of them out of office as swiftly as possible…in particular those inept lazy grey hair old coots who knew this trouble was coming and did nothing. They have nothing to show us for all their years except failure to maintain our Christian America Republic that we entrusted them with.

        We will do our own term limits through voting and make mandatory tests for mental competence and drug tests and a cap on their salaries. This will be for all of our officials and judges…these civil servants serve the people and not the other way around.

        Our American Christian Republic has been generous enough and now we need to stop sending our hard earned tax dollars out to organizations like the obsolete unsustainable United Nations who alone sucked up over 20 TRILLION of our American dollars this year 2011. They plan to justify themselves by meddling throughout the USA under disguise of Agenda 21 and this is unacceptable. We shall not have our enemies working side by side with us and announcing how they plan to kill all of us Christian Americans and how they murdered our soldiers through stealth to complete their jihad cult practices.
        Thus far no candidate addresses these issues that we the people want taken care of.
        In your bid for president/congress/senate you must promise us that you will REVOKE ALL THE DAMAGE DONE BY OBAMA…and repair our Constitutional laws.
        You will see to it all government officials and judges elected or appointed or otherwise in every state and county and throughout the governments across our land ..that these people knowing they are civil servants must submit to DRUG TESTING, MENTAL EXAMS, LIE DETECTORS AND BACKGROUND CHECKS. That they will have TERM LIMITS AND SALARY LIMITS AND THE SAME MEDICAL CARE AS ALL RETIRED ON SOCIAL SECURITY.
        ALSO, SIR…YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY DEPORT ALL THREATS TO AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THIS INCLUDES MUSLIMS WHO PRACTICE SHARIA AND HAVE TO MURDER A CHRISTIAN TO GAIN HEAVEN AND THAT THEY CORRUPT LITTLE CHILDREN AND THOSE THAT ABUSE WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
        YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS AND YOU WILL SECURE ALL OUR BORDERS AND PORTS OF ENTRY.
        America needs to rid itself of the scams involved in the foreign nations in particular get out of the unsustainable United Nations and NATO and Foreign Aid…etc…
        America needs to start deportation of enemies and illegals now: IT CAN BE DONE AND IT WAS DONE A FEW TIMES IN RECENT HISTORY
        (President Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens during the Great Depression so as to make jobs available for Americans, Harry Truman deported over 2 million illegal’s after WWll to create jobs for returning veterans, and again in 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals)
        Today with computers we should be able to deport 13 million a week. It does not break up families if the parents are here illegally. If they are born here of illegal parents they too are illegal.
        ALSO and most importantly..you must remove all Muslim cult practicing people from our military along with high medical risk disease carriers of AIDS. This is undue stress on our soldiers and a clear and present danger exists due to our neglect to protect them where we can.
        The Islamist Threat Inside Our Military

        …our military leadership is not equipped to deal with the challenges political Islam presents to national security and the protection of our armed forces.

        THANK YOU.

    • Frank

      Hey Scott why don’t you get a job on a police force where you have mindless assholes walking around trying to kill you and see how you like it. You sit on you brain and talk out your as. Wouldn’t be surprised to find out you’ve been busted a few times and that’s why you have a hardon for cops. Most of the cops are good and they’re getting fed up dealing with the possibility of getting gun down by some worthless piece of shit in our society.

      • cw protecting

        Well, I guess no one has every accused you of being a badge licker. I am sure that this guy is a mass murderer since he has an old junk car in his driveway. Oh the horrors! Glad they are finally putting him away for good, right?

      • Ken

        If you do not like your job as a cop, then quit and try to get a real job where you have to produce every day. If you can not handle the “difficulty” of being a cop, step aside. There is a long line of applicants waiting to take your place!!

      • Dave

        Frank,
        Are you a cop? You seem a bit testy. I live in a small community with no threat of cops being “gunned down” yet we have young para-military want-to-bes for officers. There is a definate change in attitude between the older officers and the new breed. I fear that we are being policed by individuals that would turn against the citizenry on a dime if the oppotunity arose as a result of a governmental collapse or declaration of martial law. Individuals sworn to uphold the US Constitution these days do not seem to fully grasp it’s importance.

      • Bruno Boccagalupe

        Frank, did you even see the video? Oh of course not your head was up where the sun dosen’t shine!A lot of these cops would be illegal thugs if it weren’t for the PD making their thuggery legal. Not all. Some.

        • Frank

          For the Record I’m NOT A COP. I just saw a cop near where I live got called to a disturbance. While walking up to the house the guy left his dog out and the dog went after the cop. The cop pulled his stun gun instead of his hand gun to protect himself against the dog and the asshole pulled a shotgun and killed the officer. We have to many assholes out there to fukn assholes out there with bullshit attitudes who think they can do what the hell they want with no consequences at all cost and it doesn’t work that way. Wouldn’t be afraid to bet everyone bitching is one of those many mindless malcontents that have been in trouble on a regular basis. I live in Pennsylvania and any cops that do something wrong are immediately dealt with. To many scumbags in this country and I wouldn’t want their job because OF PEOPLE EXACTLY LIKE THE ONES BITCHING.

      • Barbara

        Hey Frank….go back to school and get yourself a proper education so you can actually correctly spell out your ignorant thoughts. Lots of police are decent…but there are a lot of law enforcement that are truly just bullies!!

        • Frank

          Hey bitch I have a diploma do you. I didn’t say there weren’t bad cops so I guess your the one that should go back to school and learn how to read.You and alot of the whiners probably voted for that asshole in the white house.

        • Stanley

          Here goes the woman, Barbara. Too stupid to say something intelligent she has to pick on the typos! When the Sheria law comes in they will take care of big mouths like her! Maybe they will take pity on her stupid butt and just cut her head off quick!

      • Larry Anderson

        the worst criminals I have known were cops. Had a cousin murdered by a cop in Omaha years ago, had some minority kids harrassing him, heard a noice in back yard went to investigate but cop shot him in the gut, then went to him and blew his brains out, said later kids told him the cousin threatend them. Even a minortiy senator at the time demanded investigation, nothing done, the same cop killed another drunk on the street a few weeks later. Another Sherriff I knew in Utah was stealing guns from evidence room ordered destroyed, he was fired, no criminal charges. Another undersherrif in CA, son in law of Sherriff was destroying evidence in drug cases of certain protected druggies if they were part of his group, half the force were all on the drug payroll. Could go on and on with examples I have seen.

      • suzdp

        The level of violence in the USA has been escalating for decades. Many criminals have no fear of the police and will shoot rather than go to jail. I don’t blame the police for taking every opportunity to protect themselves on the job. After all, they can’t know before they get out of their patrol vehicle just who they may be facing. Traffic stops have become especially hazardous since the advent of one officer per car. Yes, some in the police force are bad apples (every group has them) and should be removed. This case is certainly an example. But these things don’t happen in a vacuum. Every citizen should know who is running their local police force and how they are doing their jobs. Know also the local court officials, DA, etc. and keep track of their operations so that the bad apples are identified and removed before they cause too much damage. The same strategy applies to your local school board. Get involved on the local level. Go to public meetings. Look at public records. Hold your employees accountable. If we don’t do these things we have no one to blame for the consequences but ourselves.

      • Larry Anderson

        I was a soldier, I was spit upon by our own people and had no rights to protect myself from them. People daily tried to kill, many friends and associates killed, no respect for us at home. Ate what most here would think was garbage, poor quarters, poor sleep, high demands, taken from family and friends, etc. No respect and no honor, so why do we owe so much to those here who are so abusive of power, get all the acclamation and toot their own horn, when ONE is killed, it becomes a national tragedy, when a soldier is killed, a young brave soul, still he is spit upon and disparged by so many that demands rights and has to put so many thousands of robots on the streets to enforce unjust, unconstitutional rules that would fly in the face of any of our founding fathers. What education is required to be a cop, what degree of intelligence or degrees? None, some would not even qualify to be an infantryman in the army.

        • Christian Patriot

          Larry Anderson said, “What education is required to be a cop, what degree of intelligence or degrees? None, some would not even qualify to be an infantryman in the army.”

          This is not the truth Larry

        • Stanley

          Larry:
          I see we have a smart human being on this blog! You don’t run onto this very often! Good job!

    • jack l eich

      I agree that america is becoming militaristic. if I saw a cop wrapped around a power pole on the highway I would drive on with no remorse. they are the enemy. we talk about china,russia but the cops concern me more. the drug war has empowered them to circumvent the bill of rights.

      • The Wolf

        People like you are why some police “give up”. You would be cut down like an animal if it wasn’t for our police. How quickly everyone forgets this! Have you all ever stopped to think that “they” (who want this country destroyed) WANT you to hate the police over this isolated incident?

        • Todd

          I gotta agree with The Wolf.

        • Larry Anderson

          Best way to beat the system is to join it. The biggest part of any cops I have known were after power, break laws and get away with it. I have respect for the every day soldier who is a ciitzen that is doing his duty but has far more restrictions on him then a cop. A cop can do far more to a citizen then a soldier to an enemy. Military has to use steel bullets, cops use exploding and file down to make biggest, deadliest wound possible. Cops kill kids or bystanders accidentally, excused, a soldier is lynched. cops can beat a citizen, battons, maze, etc. a soldier is courtmatialed. A cop goes home to a cozy life, a soldier faces 24.7 danger, dirt, filth, life and death of friends daily but is trashed. A cop is revered and if one is killed it is the most horrendous crime. It is fine to hate a soldier but MUST OBEAY or be killed by our local law enforcers. Anyone can be a criminal in this country for not agreeing with a cop, judge, etc. Power has corrupted our entire system.

          • Christian Patriot

            You spew much hatred and lies Larry

        • Len

          I don’t afraid of gangsters and bandits. I fear police and the [in]justice system – they have “relationships” with gunmen ’cause they provide their jobs.
          And NO, according to the US Supreme Court police has NO duty to protect private citizens from ANY crime. They don’t even have to respond to your 911 call. Don’t believe me – go and do your research

          • Dano in Texas

            My son has been a cop for seven years and none of this rings true with me. If you carry a badge, you are always a target. Most of the officers I know, are out there to protect and serve.

        • Stanley

          Good we have another smart one, that’s two I have found! Good job Wolf!

    • Mr. Right

      Don’t get discouraged Scott. I for one an going to stay here and fight. Name a place that is better and I will join you there.

    • Christian Patriot

      Scott it is true that there are some bad apples in the field of law enforcement, as with any other field. And I believe those bad ones in authority positions should have a much harsher punishment for abusing their power and corrupting the system. But it is NOT true that the majority of cops are bad and just out to get you. And please don’t leave out all the cops that have been wrongly accused and sent to prison (border patrol in self defense against an illegal threatening/attacking him is only one example, using force to handcuff a black man after the man spit on and attacked him is another). One stand point is that the cops really don’t need anymore video taken by smartalics to inflame the other losers who want to hate and abuse cops. The other side is it is our right to do so if that is all we are doing is recording. However, if someone is interfering with police or using it to “get in their face” and instigate a confrontation then the cop should have every right and should be expected to arrest you.

      I believe the case in this article includes some of the bad apples in law enforcement, as well as corruption in the courthouse and court system there and is absolutely deplorable. Please stop spewing hatred for ALL cops and putting all in the same category as all the same, and making their job so much harder and more dangerous than it already is. Many good cops and their wives and children will appreciate it. They deserve to be appreciated and respected back. And lastly, please, if you can be one of the many good cops, please train for it and join up. We need more that can handle the task.

      • Larry Anderson

        I have NEVER known an honest cop. lots in church, friends, even a brother and grandfather were cops, all were crooked, even if a nice guy, used power as it fit their purpose at the time. Every cop I have ever known lies if his purpose is served, excuses friends, others he knows, family members, etc. if he would catch them in some infraction, etc. Never seen one go after their own, especially minor issues where a civilian would be ticketed at least. Why are cops able to use their patrol cars for private use? Go to grocery stores, etc.? Always an excues! Some I have known were decent people but none were so honest when it fits them!

        • Christian Patriot

          I’m sorry you had such bad experiences in your life with friends and family Larry but those few corrupt who are/were cops does not mean the entire nation’s cops are all the same. Maybe you need to stop surrounding yourself with such undesirable people and do good things with your life.

        • Stanley

          So, everyone lies to suit their purpose! The criminals will lie! Look at who you vote for! Are you really that stupid!!!

    • ruth

      where the he– will you go? since obama thewhole d– world is falling apart. AMERICA use to be the the country that people would die to get to, now there is no where to go anymore for we are like all the rest , vote obuma out and get our country back.

    • http://McDsPlace@facebook.com RMcDinGa

      Scott, America is the greatest country on the planet. Just stand up for the U.S. Constitution and fight. These gestapo wierdos will get more exposure even as they use these kind of tactics to not be! This is not the first time, but technology will and does continue to expose those who think they are above the law.

    • beretta45cal

      Larry Anderson, Thank You! You are right!
      Scott, you are right, I’ve been telling people the same thing but they laugh and I think I would leave if Mr. O get’s re-elected which I really believe that he will.

    • Stanley

      I’ve been telling these this for years! They think they’re super men! They’re so dumb they watch the Flintstones and think they’re watching a documentary! Like a bug! They deserve everything they’re going to get! Get ready, they’re commin with it! The Mericans, Blacks, Arabs, government Cubans, and Semolions will put them on a resorvation! That’s if they behave themselves! The Sheria law will take care of the White women! This is what happens when you people don’t look after your own interests! Americans have proven that their tooo stupid to hold on to this country! Now take your meds and go back to sleep!

  • Claude

    Same as the “Brown Shirts” are now on the march as they were in 1939 Germany !!!!!!!!

    • J.E. Pickel

      Claude: You are absolutely RIGHT!. The government is out to take Us over as they did in ’39, especially with reneger in office. How the USA put a muslin in office is beyond Me. Guess it was the same as making a peanut farmer one. For GOD and Country, People please stand up.

      • Stanley

        J E
        They will have to go to mandy pandy land first to try to find a backbone!
        I’ll bet they’ll have to borrow nie from a dead person!

  • Brian

    When you are in a public place, you lose all right to privacy. Do the police need your consent when they record you with their dash cams? No. It’s not eavsdropping when you record your own conversation. Corruption runs deep in this nation but it will be cleasned once the People rise up. It’s only a matter of time…

    • Stanley

      Brian:
      You must be on some delusional drug!

      • J.E. Pickel

        No He is NOT!

        • Stanley

          If you think these people will raise up, you must be on a delusional drug tooooooo!

      • Brian

        Stanley,
        You must be an obama lover. Keep drinking your kool aid. Everything about our government is corrupt and your comment just goes to show how naive you are. You probably believe that guns kill people as well, not the person behind the tool. Maybe we should ban cars since they kill people. You need to get a life and quit acting like such a loser.

        • Stanley

          Brian:
          Nope, not an Obama fan! I have a license to carry and I do! I’m sick and tired of the way this country is going to the dogs! I have been working to change it for years! If the American public wasn’t soooo lazy and gutless, it wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in! If they would get half as excited over their country and house holds as they do a sports event the country would be running pretty good! Maybe they’re just tooooo dumb to! Wonder if the American Indian feels about immigration now!

    • emerutil

      I must agree with Stanley. We have lost.

  • Ralph

    Im retired but when I was working anybody could film me anytime they want. It would prove that nothing wrong happened at my hands. Just like dash cams in patrol cars and how they work. It has cleared many officers in wrong doing claims.
    There are more serious crimes going on and most look the other way.
    STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES. !!!!!!!

    • JVB

      The irony is police use surveillance cameras every single day to help them do their jobs…but filming them is a no no? Cameras are EVERY WHERE….even on dashboards of cop cars. Supposedly those are TO PROTECT THEM…so why is a citizen’s camera such a threat unless they are corrupt?

    • WillyT

      That’s a big 10-4 Ralph. Cops are Court Sworn Officers and have to both enforce AND follow the laws of the land or they are toast. Lots of people don’t like laws when it affects them and the cops get the blame. Change the laws by whatever energy and means available and you will have the cops obeying these laws or you can sit back and bitch (which does nothing).

      Point is, cops get busted and jailed too when they turn bad. Makes ‘em just like us except you have to admit, they get lied to a lot more than we civilians do!

      • Todd

        “you have to admit, they get lied to a lot more than we civilians do!”

        Yes they do Ralph!

        • Todd

          Sorry, I meant WillyT.

      • Stanley

        Can’t pry them away from their t v’s drugs and sports long enough!

  • JVB

    congress.org and don’t stop until either they listen or we vote in people who do…..

    • Stanley

      Vote, vote vote do you think your vote really counts? DUH!

  • Paul LaSalle

    Sure….stop paying their salaries. We have the 2nd amendment… we’re heavily armed… why not?

    • Larry Anderson

      Isn’t that why Bill Clinton added 10,000 cops around the country, to boost safety and security? now they need excuses to keep and justify existance of so many. More tickets to pay crooked cops and judges, add to school fund, etc.

      • Viejo

        Larry; The number was 100,000, not 10,000. However, if you will check it out you will find that there were only about 50,000 “new” cops. And, they were not all newly hired people. I know for a fact that in the state I live in that the highway safety people, the park rangers, the weights and measurement people, and others were issued sidearms, radar guns, and ticket books under the Clinton plan. Smoke and mirrors to make the plan look good. I was actually stopped, by a young man who worked for highway safety, for speeding. He openly confessed that he had no formal training in his newly assigned position. So, when you consider Clinton’s “cops” as being part of the present problem of young gestapo types, they are not it. What we are seeing now is a new breed. Keep your powder dry.

    • Stanley

      Do you realize what you’re asking these morons to do? Stick together! Ain’t going to happen!

  • Frank

    This has obama and eric holder all over it. The next thing we’ll see is come 2012 election they’ll have groups of the black panther dogs at major polling sights overseeing obamas reelection. Opps I’m sorry that’s black pussies.

    • googlesearch

      seems those “pussies” have you living in fear – pussy.

      • Larry Anderson

        I was taking kids to school, had family in car when a vehicle came at high rate of speed, was mad in a two lane he was blocked, a delivery truck on my side, cars in front, so he crossed a double line facing oncoming traffic, forcing other oncoming cars to dodge, he tried to ram me, forced me to slam brakes and dive behind truck on my side, then again tried to sideswipe me and pulled in front slamming on his brakes, I dodged him and sped away and out ran as he cut in and out of traffic to attack again. Was forced to a stop at a light, I thought for sure if he knew I had kids in car he would back off. I got out with plenty of witnesses and tried to tell him I had kids what was he doing. Turned out he was a big black guy, nice dress in a BMW, over 6 ft 300 pds. instead he thew open the door hitting me, when I said again I have my family in the car, “wearing a heart monitor” he slammed me by fist and knocked me down. kicked and hit, wife tried to stop him he slammed her into the car and bruised her badly, my 12 yr old daughter tried to pull him off and kicked him saying to get off her dad. By standers got him off, called cops, he took off, when cops sirens came, he came back. Thought he was in real trouble. NO WAY, we both were charged with disorderly conduct. He was let off entirely because has NAACP represent him, I had to hire attorney, was dropped with with a paper work fee of $150. Was told if they charged him for attacking my wife they would have to charge my 12 yr old for kicking him with assault. great laws to protect us, if we are minority?

        • Stanley

          Maybe you should start an NAACP! If you were a White person with some dignity, you should have worked to stop these Blacks from getting their way so much! Everytime they play the race card you Whites cow down like a bunch of whipped dogs! Get some backbone!

      • ruth

        he’s not in living fear, it’s only the truth!

  • Dave

    The case will go nowhere. If it were illegal to film cops, the idiot who filmed the LAPD guys tuning up Rodney King would have gotten in trouble instead of the officers.

  • Fedupwithmorons

    No one has an expectation of privacy in a public place, this includes cops. There have been several courts ruling on this arresting of people for filming cops dismissed. Arresting people for filming cops is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment!!!!

    • Todd

      I agree with you Fedupwithmorons

  • Watchman4YAH

    Irrefutible, Uncontrovertible, substantive, bona fide proof Positive:
    This Is a Complete UnLawful Malicious Tyranny of Oppression under mere Pretense of Fiction of Color of Legal Fiction posed as Law! I rest my Case! Note offered under: Doctrine of Private Attorney general,
    in the specific interest of the Public Good and Safety!

    Court says state law used to ban recording of police officers in public is unconstitutional

    By adamg – 8/26/11 – 4:29 pm

    A Boston lawyer suing the city and police officers who arrested him for using his cell phone to record a drug arrest on the Common won a victory today when a federal appeals court said the officers could not claim “qualified immunity” because they were performing their job when they arrested him under a state law that bars audio recordings without the consent of both parties.

    In its ruling, which lets Simon Glik continue his lawsuit, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston said the way Glik was arrested and his phone seized under a state wiretapping law violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights:

    The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative. It is firmly established that the First Amendment’s aegis extends further than the text’s proscription on laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,” and encompasses a range of conduct related to the gathering and dissemination of information. As the Supreme Court has observed, “the First Amendment goes beyond protection of the press and the self-expression of individuals to prohibit government from limiting the stock of information from which members of the public may draw.” …

    Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting “the free discussion of governmental affairs.”

    The court noted that past decisions on police recording had involved fulltime reporters, but said the First Amendment does not apply just to professional news gatherers.

    Moreover, changes in technology and society have made the lines between private citizen and journalist exceedingly difficult to draw. The proliferation of electronic devices with video-recording capability means that many of our images of current events come from bystanders with a ready cell phone or digital camera rather than a traditional film crew, and news stories are now just as likely to be broken by a blogger at her computer as a reporter at a major newspaper. Such developments make clear why the news-gathering protections of the First Amendment cannot turn on professional credentials or status.

    The court continued that while exercise of these rights do come with limits in certain circumstances, an arrest on the Boston Common, “the oldest city park in the United States and the apotheosis of a public forum,” is not one of them.

    • Dave

      I need to change my earlier post. Although the 4th Article of the Bill of Rights applies, the 1st Article is even more relevant (i.e., “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, and encompasses a range of conduct related to the gathering and dissemination of information” per Watchman4YAH’s post above. The privacy laws stem from the 4th Article of the Bill of Rights, security from unwarranted search and seizure, accorded to persons as part of the US Constitution. It is to protect the people from unwarrant intrusioned from the government. The 4th Article does not protect employees in the workplace or visitors to premises from being recorded by the employer or premise protectors, whether WalMart, General Electric, or taxpayers and public in general. The workplace for government employees (e.g., officials including police, inventory or maintenance personnel) is wherever the government employees are operating as government employees or at government facilities should be subject to documentation to include recording by the public. To do otherwise, promotes abuse and corruption by government employees. Where it is illegal to document (record) the action of government employees, except in the case of bonafide National Security and court proceedings which have their means of documenting for the public, government abuse and corruption is already out of control and there is no transparency to counter the abuse and corruption getting worse.

  • http://web.mac.com/stankerns Stanley Kerns

    Sue them for their jock straps–and hope I get on the jury. All firemen are descent, caring people–so are about 80% of the cops–the rest are true sociopaths–they would be drawn to police work, just like a pedophile would be to daycare. I am more afraid of the cops than the crooks–I know that the cops have a gun–in our town they shot and killed a fellow because he had a nail clipper.

  • NAVSOG

    Welcome to the DO UNJustice

  • Insurgent

    So how is this hopey, changey thingy working for you???

  • Ydlewyld

    Gestapo at work in Crawford County sad that thousands died in WW II in an atempt stop this kind of tyranny. I wonder did this States Attorney have any connections in Chicago.

  • Noelle

    This is total BS!!!!!!! welcome to the police state!!!!!!!!!!!! this law needs to be repealed!!!!!!!!!

  • Shane Gibson

    I would move from that liberal ass State!!

    “Freedom is no more than a decade away from extinction from any point in time.” -Ronald Reagan

  • dbinpv

    Illinois Government gone ” WILD”.
    Need new button on video recorders to mute the sound.
    Either way government is getting absurdly stupid people passing absurdly stupid laws
    making all within the government total bone head idiots.

  • http://yahoo Willard S. Baumgardner

    If “they” knock on MY door THEY are the ones that get the surprise. I can be from under the shower to the front door with loaded shotgun in hand in less than 30 seconds. The floor may be a bit wet , who cares! I have faced that type of situation before- I WILL NOT BACK DOWN FROM A PIG OR A HERD OF THEM.

    • Larry Anderson

      Neither did David Koresh or the Branch Dividians, like them or not, men, women, children murdered in cold blood. BUT they were cops, and national guard. Thought it was unlawful to use the military against civilians. And Ruby Ridge right then too? Yes, you can say what you want, but the power is in their hands, as well as law and power of courts, your life or family means nothing to them, that was the purpose of the abuse of cops so often to show us all we have no power as citizens. They will get your gungs, cold dead fingers is fine for them.

  • Big Ugly, Wyoming

    The police are public servants, in a public setting, by becoming PUBLIC SERVANTS they have given their implied consent to their masters.
    Any conversation that you are party to, you do have an absolute right to record – if someone wants to have a conversation with you, they waive consent by engaging in that conversation.

    How ever in the world can you be denied a court reporter when you are in court – there must be a record of all court proceedings.

    If police can record you without your consent, you must be able to do likewise – in order for a law to actually be law, it must apply equally to ALL. How can the servants have more power and more rights than their masters?

    Crawford County State’s Attorney is offering a plea deal??? Sure, because he knows that HE is breaking the law and breaching HIS Oath under the Constitution. If he can’t get the guy to take the deal, he is going to have to drop it, and he knows it.

    Welcome to the Gestapo Police State of Illinois and other states.

  • jakob

    yup here we go ! and look what state this is happening in, good ole illinois, bootlips barrys home state, other than kenya, of course.

  • Wondering Woman

    It will get worse if this administration succeeds in destroying us in order to force us under the
    one world global government. aka the new world orders – Ruled by the UN and WHO who are already corrupt as the Illinois state laws.

  • URKiddinMee

    Where is the frigging ACLU? Oh, wait, they only go after Christians for having crosses on their lawns.

    • ruth

      i wear my cross all the time around my neck! just don’t like going away with out it.

      • Stanley

        Ruth:
        Now soon, very soon you will be ask to remove the cross because you’re offending some foreigner and if you don’t, you they will make you wish you did! Soon your family and neighbors will turn you in to the authorities! Just wait and see, soon!

        • Todd

          Not going to remove it.

  • EC

    I would like for them to try and keep me from voting against that [better not say what i was going to]But again WHAT HAPPENED TO FREE SPEACH.Its time for the TRUE AMERICANS in this country to srtand up and say.NO MORE.AND MEAN EVERY DAMN WORD OF iT.When and where does the fight start.

    • Stanley

      It won’t! As that song used to go, It’s all over but the crying!

  • debrarae

    IF you want to make a difference …..then FLOOD the governor’s office and tell them to stop funding illegal alien votes, and START protecting the rights our it’s citizens! This is a perfect case for the ACU, and the ACLJ!

    http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/Pages/ContacttheGovernor.aspx

    • Stanley

      I have signed every petition and still am that has come down the pike for the last 11 years! Obviously not enough of the American cowards have or you would have seen a change by now!!! This is one of the reasons I sit back and make fun of you people! I can do this with a clear concince! In fact, I rather enjoy it! See I know you’re digging your own graves!

  • John D Hardman

    Gee Whiz, Who can we get to protect us from the Friendly Neighborhood Policeman. Has it come to this, that our traditional Friendly Neighborhood Policeman has become our enemy?
    WE ARE LIVING IN DANGEROUS TIMES; CAN YOU SAY GESTAPO?

    Jon Dee

    • Todd

      “Who can we get to protect us from the Friendly Neighborhood Policeman.”

      John, be careful what you say. THEY are listening and watching. We don’t want to give them any ideas. Next thing you know there will be ANOTHER government agency..and it won’t be used for it’s “intended purpose.”

  • OLD DAD

    remember folks we are talking about Illinois the land of Obummer.

    • Stanley

      Is this the best you can focus or you that dumb? This is happening all over the country!

  • dave schwolow

    Okay, so the police in these states are above the law. Its that simple, these states are hiring their police so that their police can do whatever they chose; if it is public abuse dont you dare video how we do what we do. Police have on their cars(at least those I have seen) Protect and Serve, I guess thats bullcrap. This is quite like the Gestopo. These states have that right, but what does it say about about the dumbf–ks who made this law and continue to uphold it? I always thought that the east and west coasts had all the stupidity but I’m finding out that is in the Heartland as well. I want to believe that I can count on the police for protection, but maybe these ‘LAW ENFORCEMENT” people are bullies and can write there own laws. If it is free speech to burn the American flag, then why is it against a law to film how police abuse their power. Bullshit!

  • Russell E. Fowler

    Time is now to throw out all Govt Agency with the laws they have made and obey the 10 Commandments.

    • ruth

      true!

  • jimmy2beans

    Illinois! Hmmm…What infamous African American president comes from that tyranical state?

    • Bruno Boccagalupe

      Don’t know what African American president came from that state. Hell, the one we got came from Kenya, by way of Indonesia and hawaii. Oh yeah, he did work there he was a community organizer hangin’ garage sale signs on phone poles. Is that the one you mean ?

  • Buck Crosby

    See where propaganda will get you ? Someone told him he lived in a free society and he was gullible enough to believe it .

  • URKiddinMee

    I’d like to be a juror on one of these police state trials! And also on the jury when he sues their azzes. Unfortunately, these type of cops give a bad name to all the really GOOD Officers out there. And also unfortunately, they are also the type who would shoot US Citizens for finally standing up against all this crap.

  • http://meat phil hamel

    No one should be above the law.

    • Todd

      I agree!

  • Patriot1

    You all need to watch and share this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv9ynF7UtH8

    THE PREAMBLE;

    WE THE PEOPLE, of the United States of America, come together, as one body and one voice, bearing the ultimate authority and power, vested in us by Constitutional laws, over all Federal and State Governments and their respective Departments and agencies, to protect ourselves, each other, our States, the Constitution and this Nation against abuses of powers, tyranny, absolute despotism, debauchery, encroachments and subversion of our Constitution by the Executive, majority in the Legislative between 2004 and 2010 and the judiciary branches within the Federal Government of the United States of America. Our founding fathers found it necessary to bind the people and the Constitution together, so that one may protect the other, then both protect the country. Anyone, including law enforcement and military personnel, who interferes, or attempts to interfere, with this declaration and the execution thereof, or harass/harm those who support it, shall be charged with Treason and Obstruction of Justice, as this document and its contents are legal, binding and for the purpose of restoring our fallen Government. The same Constitution that gives the people the ultimate executive authority and power over all conflicting and/or corrupt Governments, extends that authority over the Justice Department and its branches, the Department of Defense and its branches and the Court system, from the lowest to the highest.

    • ruth

      thanks for that.

    • Stanley

      You must be joking!

  • Buck Crosby

    Re-boot : Someone mentioned the old ” To Protect and Serve ” motto . That has been officially changed to ” To intimidate and Harrasse .

    • Todd

      Fall River, Ma is “We’ll try”

      Seriously!!!

  • Joe

    This is what happens when those in authority put themselves ABOVE the public and law.
    Its all about control. They do this to protect themselves,so the public has no recourse.They do not want authority questioned.
    America,I have said for a long time now,you had better wake up and see whats going on.
    A police state is exactly what this administration is working to attain.Thats the socialist way,control!!!!!Check out FEMA camps.See for yourself.

  • SoCalGOP

    This is further proof that more American citizens should actively film those who swore to protect the public and under oath mind you before others. We should all post their abuses online at various social media websites for public scrutiny and then, maybe our elected and other public servants will realize they are NOT above the law. Police officers and elected officials will continue to abuse the public as long as they are under the impression they can get away with their abuses of power and law-breaking.

    This is my personal observation; I think the police officers today are ignoring their oath to protect the public because our current *president* has chosen to ignore or disregard his own oath to protect and serve ALL Americans.

  • old1

    We The People are at WAR! We just don’t want to face that fact! Who runs this Government?
    We The People are supposed to! Who actually does?

    • ruth

      obuma, does and his fools!

  • USMC VET & LEO

    My PD has cameras in all of our patrol cars, for our and the publics protection. I just consider the source…..Illinois….. its like Kalifornia in the mid-west. Abuse of the public trust in any way shape or form, by law enforcement or judges, shouldnt be tolerated, least of all by the tax-payers that these jack-asses supposedly protect.

    • Todd

      AGREE!!!

  • John T. Johnson

    The National Socialist Workers Party ( Nazis) would be proud. The spirit of Adolf Hitler Lives!!! It’s time to take OUR Country Back. This is B.S.

    • Catalacify

      Vote Ron Paul for president!

  • debrarae

    I understand every one’s anger, and I agree with it. But there is something (for what little it’s worth) that can be done. First of all, contact the Governor’s office and sound off about this bill

    http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/Pages/ContacttheGovernor.aspx

    Secondly, contact the ACLJ and tell them to help this man! It’s time to put the PIGS (who ARE violating the rights of the citizens then complaining because THEY were CAUGHT) on notice!

    It’s time to say NO MORE, and go to all of the states that have this law … and TAKE THEM DOWN via USING the system!

    I’ve already contacted the Governor’s office of IL and put them on notice. What will ‘you’ do?

  • John Kramer

    This is cruel and unusaul punishment.

  • Michael

    Hang ‘em high, all the corrupt officials that is!

  • btb

    EVERYONE WAKE UP!!!!!! stop legislating away our constitutional rights. look at the power that we have given police, they can stop free people any time they want and demand to know where your going and where your coming from, happens every friday night dui checkpoints are the first major loss of rights more to come let sadd and madd take some more of your rites away. one of there relatives was killed by a drunk driver so we should change the constitution and lose our rites makes sense ………..somewhere

    • Todd

      They can do much more too..look at the Patriot Act

  • Sando Cosenza

    If it is the law not to video a law enforcement officer, than that is the law — if you do not like the law, then change it by lawful means. When the media puts their hands on something like this, they foam at the mouth, for all they care about is selling newspapers or selling a product. We in the United States have means to change laws, that is one reason our country is second to none.

  • Terry

    What good is Freedom if you can’t use it?
    NOBAMA in 2012!

  • Frank907

    Good officers would not have a problem with being recorded. They are not going to do anything wrong. If they feel threatened it may be because they operate outside of procedure and the law. Illinois is right at the top of the list when it comes to corruption. That’s where the off duty police officer jumped the bar and beat a petite woman for following the law and cutting him off when he was too drunk to serve. Think patronage!

    Just a thought; I wonder what would happen if ALL citizens whipped out their cell phones and recorded officers everytime they saw one? How many thousands could they arrest, process and try?

  • racindavid

    Sounds like it’s time for a jailbreak….

    These douche bag cops and prosecutors are OUT OF CONTROL…. THEY belong in jail.

    This is going to lead to a shooting civil war people…

  • meh-GID-oh

    Sad distortion… This is simply an ‘eye witness account’ documented for accuracy. It may be costly but the Supreme Court will rule in the defendants favor. Illinois, Obama-land, gun control, crooked cops… The ‘Shot Heard Around the World’ may begin in Illinois

  • LB

    I am an expolice officer and from comments I need to take up for police officers.Not all police officers are bad.There is a handful that make them all look bad but most are OK guys.I have worked with some that should of been jailed right along with the criminals.I have seen things that were against the laws in every way but when you are a patrolman and you stand up against some top officers that are on the take they will take you down.Its a bad situation sometimes but cameras are perfectly legal and you catch a bad officer you do need to report it and the web and newspapers is one good place to go if you cant get a response from Chief or Prosecutors.

  • RoyG

    It seems the feds and the state police are starting to get used to cracking down on everyday U.S citizens.. it will make it easyer for them to justify and enforce marshall law… The United Police State of America coming to a neighborhood near you… How do you peacefully stand up to them if they decide you are a threat? The only way i can think we hav a chance is thru the courts and a change in the laws… But since the patriot act everybody has lost their 4th amendant rights snd the gov is running rampid….

  • marlio

    Well, if the police werent afraid, what they are doing isnt legal, they wouldnt be worried about it. Just like we arent doing anything illegal, and we dont like walking through the scanners or having pat downs…..Tit for TAt….you cant have it both ways.

  • RICK ZIMMERMANN

    MY FELLOW AMERICANS:
    In case any of You do’nt know the Police,Sherriff’s, State Police,FBI, have no legal responsibility or mandate to protect you the citizen of the United States. They are only there to protect the Property of the City,County,State. Wake Up America, Hitlers Germany if Far from Dead especially it seems in Illinois,

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  • John The Mack

    I come from a long line of cops. One of my cousins was off on 9-11 and lost his whole crew. My best friend is a cop. But, I do know that there are some turds out there with badges. My friend told me that the graduates are now being asked to sign a document congruent with their “oath” that states they will take all orders from the government without question. WTF ? Oh, if you run into the demeaning types who make snyde comments, tell them that you flunked out of the psyche test at the academy. Seems they don’t want officers that are too smart to carry out illegal or blind orders. Booyah.

  • Gray Beard

    Welcome to the U.S.S.R., folks! If I have ever seen or heard anything so amazing in my life, this is it. We definately are now the “United Socialist States of America.” I can’t believe this. This is, on one hand, suppression of evidence and, on the other hand, “Big Brother is Here!” What has happened to the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! What has happened to our Rights and Freedom’s? I guess the “U.S.S.A.” is now truly a Police State. What a shame. The Greatest Republic and Democracy ever created is now gone, perhaps forever. I’m totally devastated by watching this report.

    The job of the Police is to “…Protect, Preserve and Safeguard the Constitutional and Civil Rights of all Citizens through Impartial and Courteous Law Enforcement, with Integrity and Professionalism.” We, the Citizens, also have the Right of “Eminent Domain.” If anybody should enter my home, or step foot onto my property, I should, without doubt, have the right to record what they do and say, without fear of the Law. Now, the Law is what we need to fear. What we must do is Protect Ourselves from the Police, in what has become a “Police State.” What a shame.

  • http://www.allforms4less.com ken

    If you post a bumper sticker or something in a window of your vehicle that says “Any encroachment to this vehicle will be recorded”. That puts who-ever including law-enforcement that they will be recorded by their actions. They have the right at that point not to approach. Unless of coarse they stop you for a motor-vehicle infraction but they are still put on notice.

  • SpiritualMadMan

    It would have been nice if they had shown a list of the 11 states that make recording public acts in public a crime.

    I guess what we all need to do is get our little spy cameras carefully hidden and just not let them know they are being recorded!

    At least *then* if we are caught we will have been actually guilty of the serruptitious parts of what eavesdropping really is.

    Trust is earned. One who does not trust can not be trusted.

    Let’s see obummer comes from Illinois doesn’t he?

    Now, it all makes sense…

    Men who love evil love the darkness of secrecy…

    What does that say about the Prosecutor taking on this case?

  • unkown soldier

    Against the law to film the police…….Unbelievable……same penalty as rape…… perversion . I believe the we are seeing the 3rd Reich trying to resurrect itself. Kill the beast. This is the Muslim influence in government, I guarantee it

  • joe mulder

    We are ripe for a public uprising against our governments maggots!

    • Stanley

      The only thing you people are ripe for is the plucking! Do what you people do best and go back to sleep!

  • Joel Whitehurst

    If a law officer “plays it straight”, and does his legal duty, what is the justification for the objection to video recording? The only logical reason for law enforcement to enforce the ban on recording the official actions of our so-called “public servants” is that the actions of the “public servants” are illegal, immoral or unethical. What kind of a lunatic would make or enforce a law forbidding citizens the right to make a record of a legal event? Illinois is a crooked place, I think.

    • Dean

      Illinois is definitely a crooked place. Look at Washington D.C. and see the people running our government who are from Chicago, especially the one in the Oval Office.

  • twocolts

    Ah, the Chicago Machine..the state of bold, open corruption, accelerated since Obama wormed his way into the Illinois Senate, then got squatting-rights to our Oval Office. Had all I could take of the liberal snake-pit, now in Florida for nearly 15 years, fully enjoying the status “from”, Illinois. Anyone who can leave the miserable state, and wishes to reclaim their natural right to self-defense, and the Second Amendment, should do so. All 49 other states have some form of Concealed-Carry for the law-abiding, so it’s a win-win.

    • Spar07

      I agree with you completely and our CCW laws here in Kansas are opening up to the point where one of our major cities is now permitting CCW in places where it used to be against the law. I am still trying to learn all the places they opened up but certain malls for example was a No No. Wichita, KS didn’t allow CCW in such places but now, they changed all that. We are becoming more free with the passing of each season.
      I love our laws here and the crime rate in our area is limited to mostly non violent type crimes. Once in a while though, we learn of a rape and or a molestation but not all that often. A few of our larger cities, like every other one in this nation, does experience serious crimes of violence against others and people do die but for the most part, it is all drug related.
      Everyone in the rural communities here owns at least a couple of firearms and there is a lot of hunting around here. And our CCW capability is gaining momentum which is a good thing. I already have CCW capabilities and have had advanced training in the process. It is a good feeling to know that we have the ability to defend ourselves, contrary to such people as who we have in the WH, Chicago police and others like them.
      When it comes to Chicago, I have been in that city on numerous occasions and I have no intentions of ever going back, not even to pass through the state to another. I hate their biased laws that keep the good citizens suppressed. Obama and those like him ruined that city. And, arresting someone for taking a picture of an LEO doesn’t surprise me. Even Brooklyn NY, while I was there, had friendlier officers. I had a chance to speak with a few of them and they seem to be a laid back group. But, if they needed to get serious, I really wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of their determination to arrest someone. They get down to serious business in a hurry.

  • Billy

    Enough is enough. Fight back. Other citizens should stick together with whom ever stands up and support them finanicially and morally. Folks we have got to stop this crap.

  • Dean

    With all the surveillance cameras mounted around cities large and snall, if one records some police action will the city officials go to jail for 75 years. Come law officials, get real.

  • fedupvet

    If you’ll recall, Obama/Bounel, or whatever his real name actually is, admitted he had a communist mentor, and found himself “drawn to the radicals and communist groups” on campus. Can anyone say ‘KGB’? (communism never left us, it just changed costumes)

  • Craig

    Looks like we are finally reaching the status of absolute corruption/absolute power! Better kick the Demos out of office in 2012!

  • Ayn Rand

    “The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” Ayn Rand

  • http://none daniel jacobson

    well when the shit hits the fan and it WILL,,cops better decide whos side there on liberty or tyranny??my guns do not discriminate….most cops will side with tyranny..when they are told to come for our guns..live free or die….and we ARE living in orwells police state..fuck them..i agree with another comment I HATE COPS..bullies with a badge

    • Todd

      I’ve talked to a lot of military who said that there’s no way they would collect any guns. I think that when the time comes, they use the UN to try to collect them.

  • Steve

    I have sat in court and watched,and the reason they do not want you to record them is because the prosecutor’s office alters the tapes so that person goes to jail that is how they make their money.

  • Spar07

    This situation has gone beyond any level of intelligence on the part of those who are prosecuting anyone for merely taking a picture of police officers while actively involved in anything that is within their job description. First of all, to receive a life sentence, one must commit a LEVEL 1 PERSON FELONY. Anything short of this charge is Unwarranted and should never be considered in any courtroom. And, if a judge issues such a sentence, not only should the victim in this case file for an Appeal but with the U.S. Supreme Court and then, Counter against the judicial system that sentence him.
    Judges have sentencing guidelines to follow and they cannot step outside of that grid without a very plausible reason that would be within the guidelines of our National laws. Police officers just can not make up the laws as they go to suit their needs whenever they feel an embarrassment coming on. As another poster here stated, they are our servants who are to protect and to serve US.
    In another form of retaliation against that particular police force, every citizen of that community should get their cameras out and, in mass numbers, follow those officers and take as many pictures as they humanly possibly can, get the pictures processed and then post them for the entire world to view. Maybe a little lesson learned that they need to show a little more respect for the very laws they are supposed to be upholding themselves and for the citizens they seem to want to harass.
    One other method would be to take this matter to their state’s Attorney General’s Office with formal complaint with many signatures as possible. Bring it to the attention of much higher authority is something officers don’t like at all and they seem to want to try to white wash every negative aspect of their actions. I used to be in law enforcement and have seen officers taken down due to their arrogance in the line of duty.
    One was even charged and sent to prison for 5 years. Out in about 4 due to good behavior. Officers can be charged as well as anyone else. They are still citizens of their communities. It only takes a few brave people to go up against them to put them back into their places.

  • Frank

    I have a dash cam in my car and record at all times to protect myself, this past year I was pulled over illegally and accused of violating the law. Officer claimed I changed lanes 5 times over 9 miles and never used a signal(he was directly behind me entire time), I simply looked at him and told him”your full of shit, and this entire incident has been recorded on video(camera rotated to see officer while pulled over), lets just say he was a bit upset, I told him give me the ticket and I’ll see him in court. He issued the ticket. I filed a written complaint against the officer and then requested a traffic court hearing on the ticket. When I got to court the officer had a completely new attitude and was bending over backwards to appease me once I told the traffic judge that I refuse to plead guilty and would appeal if necesarry to district court. I was not found guilty on the ticket. I would have recorded the proceedings also except Calhoun County, MI courts unconstitutionally forbid ANY recording devices inside building. I was told by the security check point rent-a-cops that I would be arrested if caught recording anything for any reason. I really think that a law needs to be passed federally forbidding ANY government from restricting citizen video/audio recordings of any happenings taking place on their own property or ANY public domains taxpayer supported such as courtrooms, or police stations.

    • Debbie Texas

      There are video recorders and cameras everywhere these days. Our privacy is invaded constantly. People have been unable to prosecute criminals who set up video cameras other people’s private bathrooms, homes, hotel rooms and so on.

      WE the people own all the government property and our government employees are our servants…their privacy and rights DO NOT trump ours! WE all need to get this clear in our minds and work together to turn this insane ship around. WE are being abused, beaten, charged with crimes we did not commit and are subjected to complicity by our public servants in fraud schemes by their criminal buddies in ‘business’…we have judges, court reporters and other court officials who are working against us and our Constitution and rule of law every day.

      Our law abiding and honest, tax paying citizenry are the only ones being abused while the parasites, illegal alien invaders, criminals in the public and private sector ‘walk’ and laugh at us.

      WE are the only ones who can fix this. WE are our own cavalry.

  • Debbie Texas

    Well…when I was dealing with real estate, builder, mortgage, title fraud…and city racketeering; I had an incident with a couple of officers who were sent to my home to attempt to intimidate me. I caught them and their bosses at the city in some lies and statements that would get them in some serious trouble, So I said “You fellas don’t mind if I get my recorder and ask you to repeat what you just told me, do ya???” One turned read and started sweating and said something like “You’re not going to record me!” I told them to get out of my house and not come back under any circumstances.
    Several police officers and a few FBI agents told me in loud, angry voices when I recounted that story that under NO Circumstances…NO police officer or public servant should ever refuse to be recorded or taped…that there can be no instance where the refusal is justified. If they were carrying out official business; they should have nothing to hide.

    • Debbie Texas

      Oh, and my point: When one enters public service; they forfeit much of the privacy a private citizen enjoys…IMHO. They have a duty to perform and that duty is based entirely on public trust; Fiduciary trust. They are not the ‘authority’ nor are they royalty…and they should be held to a much higher standard under the law; civilly and criminally.

      Our citizens need to grow a backbone and do whatever it takes to get these cretins and scum bags under control.

  • Steve Mcalister

    Why are we not seeing hours-long special coverage of this? Is the media afraid to publicize it?

  • Dean

    I don’t think Obama has any idea of the underground animosity the citizens of this country have against him. Just let him try to take the guns away from the people and he will be sorry.

    • smack dab

      Yes, Underestimating the American people and their rights that we have fought for for this country will be Obuttheads biggest mistake ! We will never let the 2nd Admin. go under and if they think so , let’em try ! Buy all the guns you can now.

  • Frank

    At the end of the day police officers have transformed from law enforcement officers to government income collectors……and THAT is why they hate being recorded, it interferes with the income success rate and often cost them jobs and reputation, and NOBODY will help a cop they know is currupt. I for one will not hesitate to tell them to go fuck themselves right to their face. I teach my children and tell every kid I know that if a cop EVER asks you a question, you have 3 choices, tell the truth and get in trouble, lie and get in trouble, or use your “right to remain silent”. Obviously the best thing to do is remain silent. Unfortunately I’m just so fed up that I will never be silent, but I am never defensive with them, and ALWAYS offensive, which is why I am their worst enemy.

  • Colt Lane

    Looks like the revolounary war is about to begin, lock & load. We the people will not live under a dictatorship. Give me liberty or death, (la we la his.)

  • Bud Wisa

    Up here in Vermont and New Hampshire the police are known and part of the communities. They act responsibly as their training teaches them. They are flexible and understanding in any given situation [ there are exceptions ]. That might seem unbelievable to you but it is true.

  • john

    OVERTHROW ALL DEMOCRATS & LIBERAL JUDGES ARIUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE BREAKING THE LAW & MAKING ILLEGAL LAWS TO PUT GOVERNMENT & POLICE ABOVE THE LAW IS TYRANNY & TAKING AWAY PEOPLE RIGHTS LEADING TO GOVERNMENT POLICE STATE AUTHORITY BEING ABOVE THE LAW. WE THE PEOPLE CAN’T ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN OR WE WILL FOREVER LOSE OUR FUTURE, FREEDOM, CONSTITUTION RIGHTS FOREVER. WE THE PEOPLE ARE MILLIONMS & THEY ARE THE MINRITY WE THE PEOPLE CAN ELIOMINATE THE OPPRESSORS & LAWBREAKER & COMMUNIST OUT OF LIVES FOREVER.GOD GAVE US THE WILL & THE POWER TO DESTROY THE EVIL IN OUR COUNTRY THE UINITED STATES OF AMERICA.

    • Mark in LA

      Yeah, blame the Democrats exclusively. Who expanded the “War on Drugs” at the behest of his idiot wife (“Nancy – just say no”) and gave them the ability to get drug money booty that lead to an explosion of SWAT teams all trying to cut other jurisdictions out of the spoils leading to alot of raids without any corroberation of tips from “informants”. I’ll give you a hint – he was the most stupid President in the history of the US and resided in the White House from 1981-1989.

      • Are You Serious

        You’re the stupid one. ESAD

  • Maverick777

    Leave it to the most corrupt state in the union and it’s officials to come up with BS of this nature. How about a citizen arrest on the chief and the police officer along with the DA and don’t forget the judge as they are all wrong and should be punish for taken away a persons rights. This is against ones constitutional right and the first amendment rights. Are the COPS so afraid of the People knowing just how they Don’t Serve and Don’t Protect the Public?? What wrong with this picture people. Why doesn’t the Illinois taxpayers gets off their butts and force the issue on all concern from the Judge right on down the line to the cop..this was not eavesdropping it’s public information and no Subpoena is required for this in plan sight video and it was in plain public site… Just goes to show the state of Illinois needs be clean up where law makers and enforcers are concern. Remember this states law makers allow an illegal to be Senator and same illegal was elected as president and they wonder why The People do not trust them to put out the cat. They are all crooks and until they are removed then you’ll have problems like this. I hope the attorney for this man turns around an sue’s all concern as this is nothing but bs. I can say this if one of those A$$ H___’s takes my camera they better have an army with them as they will have a fight on their hands. When I’m in the right I will protect myself and my right as a US CITIZEN from any dumb ass cop. No wonder people in the state hate the cops after all what good are they if this is how they do business and treat citizens.
    No one needs this peddy bs …

  • Donald C. Brown

    This one I can not believe: When I built my first radio by winding wire on a round cereal box hooked up to a crystal and made sure with my earphones that I could find the police calls,to spend nights, listening. I could never make a recording then. Later in life, I even started building a few commercial radio stations. Police Radio even pulled me onto the Ventura, CA Police Force as a ride around Volunteer. Here it is now and I am 82 years old. ANY BROADCAST is tightly controlled by the Federal Communication Commission and I sure don’t know where the FCC has a rule r would even try to add such a RULE LIKE THAT, AND THEY HAVE PLENTY!. I COULD LIST lots of them that do NOT even make good sense. “Illegal to record Police calls is not there! THIS would be STUPID if some one slipped a new one in the thick book. That has INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS . THAT, I HAVE NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE, EVER even heard, has been even thought of or even discussed.
    I have not posted things on the WEB but on this this my area and PRIMARY business in life.
    Donald Charles Brown, 30- years US Navy Civil Service Engineer. Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco CA. Retired
    E-mail: doncbrown28@yahoo.com
    Phone: 510-247-1705

  • ancientaerie

    I used to live in Ill. and thought it was a great place and had a great friend who was a retired law officer in this state. Chicago is wonderful but hearing stories such as this places a negative mark upon the state. If I were a police officer, I would want someone to record me to make certain everyone knew what a fine job I was doing for my community; the same community who paid my salary. Police officers should be fair, just, helpful, kind, brave, and reverent. They should be willing to help children get their cats out of trees, suggest things / never demand and always willing to help their community without being arrogant or demanding of it’s citizens. They should always keep in mind they serve the community and never the other way around. One perfect example of a great law officer is the Canadian Mounted police officer in the movie “The Grey Fox”. The California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles police officers are highly professional forces I respect because the few times I have dealt with them with regard to a traffic ticket or just a friendly conversation they have always showed me kindness, understanding, and respect and when someone does this, they have my respect right back.

  • James

    How much more of our freedom and liberty are we going to allow? Hey Illinois Vote all those out of office that do not agree to change this one sided law. If that doesn’t work move to another state, eventually there will be no citizens left to pay their salary and retirement benefits. I guess all the businesses in the state can’t have video cameras to protect their property. If the police show up they can go to prison. When does this end?

  • R. Smullen

    Why can they use a camera in their vehicles to film us but we cannot film them. They are in the publics eye, so what is the problem?

  • R. Smullen

    The law will be changed if the people stand up for what’s right and change the law. The law makers will have no choice but to change it. The people have the power, not them.

  • joe

    This is obammy’s amerika. the black trooper boots are coming after ya.

  • Pancho

    sad state of affairs in the USA. Go to Mexico – police are very polite
    Viva Mexico
    Pancho

    • Frank

      Yeah that may be true but thats because the police force there knows that being rude to somebody could very quickly turn into their last day alive, lots a dead police down there. Hell they cant keep any government officials alive there.

    • ……another amerikan who did not/will not vote for OBAMA anyway!

      …………this X copper (as I am) is correct! I was relieved of duty when I made a traffic stop and my partner got out and BLATANTLY harrassed the motorists…..I intervened……he ATTEMPTED to admonish me at the scene…..the motorists were sent on their way…………….WE both got back into the police vehicle and I drove to an UNDISCLOSED (dark) location….exited the vehicle with HIS baton in hand and told him to step in front of the vehicle whereby I went to work on him with his OWN stick until he ran into the woods……….I drove back to the station and turned myself in……..WHEREBY, obviously, I was relieved of duty! This ENDED my police career VOLUNTARILY……….I have never been happier and still disgruntled with the EGOTISTS; overAGGRESSIVE former high school bullies/nerds who must prove something to THEMSELVES they have POWER/AUTHORITY never before realized in life wearing a pistol/badge………………EXTREMELY dangerous (for the most part)………
      ’nuff said!’…………………………………………………………………………

    • Stanley

      You should go back to Mexico, and stay!

  • George

    As a Lefty, and ACLU member, I am pleased to present the following:
    August 19, 2010
    CHICAGO – Responding to a series of incidents in which individuals in four counties in Illinois have been charged with violating Illinois’ eavesdropping law for making audio recordings of public conversations with police, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois today asked a federal court to rule that the First Amendment bans such prosecutions. The ACLU lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Chicago, argues that individuals (and organizations such as the ACLU) may make audio (and video) recordings of police who are performing their public duties in a public place and speaking in a voice loud enough to be heard by the unassisted human ear.

    • Frank

      Its about time the ACLU is doing something worthwhile, they spend far too much time being the enemy of common sense. I actually surprised the ACLU even cares about this except they know that this one can even reach them if they dont take a stand and thats probably the only reason they are concerned. If a white man cried racial discrimination against a black police officer, I doubt you would give that person so much as a glance of support. The ACLU has shown itself to be as currupt as law enforcement.

  • L.J.

    THIS is exactly why I went from supporting police to desting the very sight of them. Police nowadays exist to harass the citizenry in whatever way they desire and the damned court systems back them up when they clearly are violating our Constitutional rights—-PERIOD!
    What are we going to have to do to get our pre-911 rights back and then some? Congress has violated the Constitution by pasing laws that ARE illegal and will not and do not stand up to Constitutional muster. This is yet another example of police going out of their way to cover-up their activities which are illegal, otherwise why would they mind if they were being filmed? think baout it folks–better get out and buy a good weapon and lots of ammo before Osama bin Obama signs yet another illegal treaty with the one-world government UN and the crooks in the seanate ratify it. Get conservative-minded people in the government and I mean YESTERDAY because the day is fading fast on our rights and liberties and the night comes “when no man can work.”
    If I have to pick up a gun and fight the communists in our governemt like the founders of this country did against England, so be it. I will be willing to give my life to snuff out as many commies as possible!
    Sign me DISGUSTED!

  • Essex

    So, recording in public is evesdropping, but watching and listening is not…??? That’s the weakest crap I’ve ever heard…!!!

  • Essex

    It’s time to flush the toilet that is D.C. and start over…!!!

  • Carol Goodwin

    I believe all these activities should be taped, audio and video! It would cut down on Internal Affairs work and would stop over abuse in arrests. For 4,5,6 or more law enforcement persons beating on one ‘suspect’ when he is down on the ground is a bit much. Illinois seems to be a state known for the police being as brutal as the criminals. I know how someone can be incensed by the language most ‘suspects’ can use but policemen are supposed to be trained not to react but to respond and not with deadly force.
    I BELIEVE THIS MAN SHOULD BE SET FREE!

  • George

    No cheers for the ACLU?

    • Viejo

      George; If a professional football team wins one game in a season, I doubt that very many would cheer. Let’s face it. Overall the ACLU has a dismal record when it comes to supporting and defending conservative folks of our great country. They are and have always been on the “left”. Personally I applaud their involvement in the case of recording police officers. However, I will be willing to bet that there is an underlying reason that could affect the ACLU hierarchy. I hope they will take this case “all the way”. Keep your powder dry.

  • AL Orange Park, FL

    If these SOB’s get away with this our Republic is LOST to us.
    BO [whew someone open a window] has won defacto!
    All is lost?!

    • Cecile

      Our Republic has been lost a long time ago. It only exists on paper and by the people who want to believe that it still exist. I don’t believe for one minute that this man will get a fair trial. The truth is rarely allowed in court.

  • RockyAcres

    “Don’t talk to police, even if you are innocent!” watch the video series on youtube!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbJd2USUDI
    COPS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!!

    • Cecile

      AMEN!!!!

    • Frank

      exactly, and if you do speak up, NEVER defend yourself, be on the offense against their tactics, not their accusations. A verbal threat requirs an offense. Hopefully you have a video recording to prove what you said so they cant lie and misrepresent your words on a police report. I have watched all those vids on youtube about how to handle police questioning, and they are great, but they dont deal with the real problem, the real problem is the tactics used by police to get what they want, we must speak up against these practices if we are ever to put a stop to it.

  • http://conservativebyte.com/2011/04/coulter-tells-trump-to-drop-the-birther-bs/ Mindorena

    Ridiculous laws and ineffective leaders, yes, that is what we have. Quo vadis America? Sad, really, sad.

  • The G-Man

    The ACLU won’t be doing anything about this travesty of justice. They only defend perverts. Muslims, and fringe groups most people despise. They also so sue the Boys Scouts because they don’t want child molesters as Scout Masters. Attourneys supress the truth all the time, because the truth is many things, but inconvenient tops the list, especially if it comes between them and winning the case. We have to watch what the cops do almost as much as we do our leaders. While most police officers are good and decent people doing a thankless task, there are those whom are little more than ‘bullies with a gun and a badge’.

    • George

      Hey G-Man,

      See my second post above.

      From what I can tell, the ACLU is one of the few organizations that are defending the people and the first amendment. You may not like them but they’re doing the right thing – defending citizen’s rights.

  • Bill

    I can explain the problem with the police of today. I have more than 24 years in public service as a police officer, and I have seen the change first hand. In my day we were called peace officers and today we are called law enforcement officers and that is exactly what young officers think they are. The cops of old used a lot of personal judgment and they knew that the best solution was not always an arrest. Sometime the peace is best kept with a little reason and understanding, but young officers are totally law enforcement officers. You break a rule and you pay the price. There is no reasoning or understanding. Most officers of today are more like programed robots than living breathing humans. The only good cops are the ones that still rely on their own good judgment and truly understand what a peace officer is, and try and maintain and keep peace and order through common sense.

    This is just the opinion of an old cop who should have retired 10 years ago!

  • tom finney

    u can’t record police because they break more laws the we do.
    i live i ill and i think it will keep law inforcement in check to record them they sorta make up laws as they go…..

  • Cecile

    Ill, cops are nothing more then the mafia and gangsters. My family and friends know them as the new Mafia, the Blue Mafia. In my opinion they commit more serious crimes like fatal assault and murder then anyone else across the US. There is little or nothing the public can do about it. They do not break the laws or are above the law because they make and ARE the law. The public has no way of having them investigated or charged. The police, police themselves. I was arrested once for impeding a police officer because the cops wanted to come and do a search on my home. I told them they needed a search warrant and I was told if I did not give up my rights I was going to be arrested for impeding. Like the man in this story my father and my brother both fought in wars to protect our rights. I will NOT give them up on a mere threat. They had to go get a warrant and lied to get it. They didn’t get the judge to sigh the warrant until later but I didn’t know this. The warrant they use to get into my home was not a valid warrant. I went to court and the officer who made the threat and later came back and arrested me was not in the court room. Several months before my trial my attorney was set up and they tried to take her grand child and her licence to practice law. She fought them and won but was afraid of them after that. She went along with them and I was tried without being able to say anything about what the cop did to me or to my family. The arresting officer was not in the court so I was not allowed to say anything about him. They created a story that was so off the wall I couldn’t believe it. My attorney was terrified of them. They almost killed my then very young grandchildren at 3 am by taking them out in sub Zero temps on a false report. The thing that really blows me away is that they already knew the report was false yet they almost killed the children anyway. They are nothing but sick bastards. When will Americans begin to fight back? How much more do we have to suffer by out of control cops and corrupt courts. When will we fight for our rights to be returned to us. What are our service men fighting for? Who gave the cops more rights then we the people? What ever happened to protect and serve? Cops only protect there own and only serve themselves. I would rather come up against a rapist then a cop. After being raped I might be able to get away with my life but a cop can just shoot me and make up a story as to why he did it and totally get away with it. It happens all the time.

  • Kevin

    How about having a bis sign say YOU SEE THIS CAMRERA? I AM RECORDING THIS, IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT TELL ME NOW AND TELL ME WHY I CAN’T?

  • Don

    And one more point is that if you need a cop and are robed and shot they will be glad to fill out the paper work, And they just may find time to try to solve the crime. BUT If one of there kind gets shot or something happens to a fellow cop, All hell breaks loose!!!!!! They will not stop till they have somebody to pin they crime on.

  • sheila

    I know many police officers. They are not like this. When the time comes, they will be on our side.

    • ruth

      you think? what about our military, will they trun aganist obaum and his cronies if need be to save us all from the evil with-in. i hope our protectors of AMERICA will defend us inh time of need, and not the jidhist in the WHITE HOUSE.

  • ruth

    get out and vote the ass out in 2012, and then throw the whole of congress out, even the repulicans that seem to do as obama say. put obama and his fa- ass wife on the boat to kenya, or better yet, make them swim for it!

  • Todd

    It’s crazy that he was arrested, and even more crazy that the judge went along with it.

    This country is upside down.

  • eric

    why is it illegal for ordinary citizens to video tape police officers without their consent, but most police cruisers have cameras on their cars. they can record you without your consent. it is crazy especially for the man facing 75 years in prison. if the police officers didn’t have anything to hide why would they care. 2 sets of laws. one for the police and one for everyday people.

    • Catalacify

      Not to mention the patriot act is being misused and abused by law enforcement too! They spy on and stalk innocent Americans by having phone companys and internet service providers keep your data and record your phone conversations so they can retrieve it later from them. They then use it as they see fit. Even use it to ridicule and spread gossip about people. They put GPS tracking devices on your car without you knowing it. And not all police are honest! Imagine where this can go!

  • Kevin

    Plus I’am a simple working man, and it seams to me that the law is for hiden cameras, when the other party has no idea what is up, isn’t that “not knowing”? and what about equal protection ? and I can’t believe the aclu is going to help this guy! and he’s not gay, black, muslim,ect..

  • Carl W

    We must remember also that a lot of prosecutors are bad people in some cases. Even when evidence has come forward that could prove a person innocent the prosecutor is determined to win in court at all cost. And for what? To build a solid resume of convictions of “criminals”. Even when evidence surfaces that proves an inmate never commited the crime, the prosecutor is determined to keep him behind bars so his record of convictions won’t be harmed. Truth or justice doesn’t matter. Our justice system is a joke.

  • L

    I ask why are the police so touchy? What have they to hide? If they didn’t do anything wrong, why are they so concerned? Actually filming could work for the police. We’re paying their wages.

    I know the police have a hard job, but this bothers me. I’ve always tried to respect our police, I hope I can continue to do so here locally.

    Did you know that police do not have to protect the citizen? They’re really for after-the-fact.

  • robert j. wolfe

    Two things, If the Cops didn’t have anything to hide (man has been prewarned over and over) or, a very slow way of installing a Socialist Agenda, A slow way to steer you into the direction of removing your rights.
    You have to remember, this is the way to take over a Nation, 1 person at a time until wow, wake up one day to find out, you no longer have rights…
    Obama read Hitlers book, you know this too is what Obama wants…

  • DonM

    I think it would be prudent if not required for everyone that calls themselves friends of liberty, to write the DA, Prosecutor, and Governor of Illinois and complain about this major infringement on the Constitution. And tell them that we are going to start a nationwide campaign to have the people who have wrongfully accused this man fired.

    • Catalacify

      And vote Ron Paul for president and help him fight for our unalienable rights to freedom!

  • Steve in Pittsburgh

    I’m thinking of the NWA song “F* the Police”.

  • Catalacify

    Vote Ron Paul for president! He is against this sort of thing!

  • CharlieSeattle

    “When the people fear the government that is tyranny. When the government fears the people that is liberty.” –Thomas Jefferson

  • robert j. wolfe

    After viewing the video, damn right. This is Obamas home away from home town (his being from Indonesia) not America however, his Socialist Agenda started in Chicago…
    It all makes since.
    Bad cops need to be caught if they are wrong but there is no way to moniter all the videos so, “Outlaw Them”…
    Last, not because of Obama because (I hate the man) but too many good cops have gone down from edited cell phone recording where the whole story has not been shown from start to finish . While I 100% dissagree with the 75 years, maybe a small warning, nothing more.
    I am an Ex Cop and I see all the time Cops doing their job actually get in trouble for doing the right thing…
    Last, this man on trial will not recieve 75 years, believe me. He may pay a fine, a warning and go home at the end of the day…

  • Edward H.

    One more example of Government over extending its authority. This is VERY VERY scary stuff. The citizens of the United States are slowly losing their rights to be anything more than robots to ever more oppressive Local and Federal Governments. BO, our current president, would like even more power, even, I suspect, to the point of forced worship of his supposed leadership.

    One Disgusted American Citizen

  • Gene

    Our Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves! Had they seen where this nation was going, George Washington would have fought for the British and benedict arnold (lcit) would have been an honored war hero.

  • mick wiseman

    What do you expect from a state that gave us Al capone and Obama.
    WAKE UP CITIZENS, THE HITLER LIKE POLICE STATE IS HERE.

  • Christian Patriot

    It is the liberals agenda to cause much chaos and to upset order. There are a few on this forum tonight spewing many lies and much hatred for ALL law enforcement and the order of our land. Recognize them.

    • Are You Serious

      Exactltly right!!!! Good post!!!!

  • DonM

    Here lets all give Tom Wiseman a call tomorrow. And tell him what they are doing is unconstitutional and the attack on our rights should be stopped immediately. That is the very least we can do for this man that is standing up to the establishment on behalf of the constitution, and free Americans everywhere. Can you imagine the effect of about 200 phone calls starting about 0900 tomorrow?

    Crawford County States Attorney
    Tom Wiseman
    Crawford County Courthouse
    105 Douglas St.
    Robinson, IL 62454
    618-546-1505
    Fax 618-544-4912

  • Spoon

    Allison needs a great “barrister” to set things straight, posthaste. I despise 90%+ of all attorneys with the litigation-crazed maggots being the worst. And don’t forget the bums that comprise a majority of Fed Gov. office holders in DC. The legal profession is a significant part of the current problems facing all Americans. Mr. Allison requires a solid “Tea Party” mouthpiece to represent him in his civil case against which ever IL PD and County/City Prosecutor that’s wanting to lynch this man. I pray he goes for the balls within the Attorney Gen’s office…particularly clamping onto the jackass that testified at his pre-trial (I presume) hearing.

    I’m optimistic that he takes away a healthy sum for being harassed, threatened and having his Constitutional Rights violated by the fascists that make up too much of IL’s power-crazed loonies like the sitting un-president, or wherever the hole that he crawled out from!

    If these drain-bramaged high & mighty types want to play vindictive games with peoples’ lives, coupled with their families emotions, security and general well-being, then they can certainly (expect to) pay for it.

    Mr. Allison said he’s fighting for all of us and our rights, freedoms and liberty! His tenure of incarceration from Day 1 ought to bear significant meaning to everyone here. Maybe we could all toss in a buck or five to help with him, his family and the mounting legal fees. Can someone post an address??? Better yet…the ConservativeByte folks could publish it with a link on an upcoming mass e-mail.

    Hang in there Mike…the Calvary should be on it’s way! And THANK YOU for staying the course of a true Patriot.

    Outgaged in Rural MO
    Spoon

    P.S. Those of you that believe THE majority or large percentage of the men & women in LE positions are truly “bad cops”…I’d suggest you take, hell no make the time to talk with a few of your local, county and state police officers and see just where the stand. You might be surprised to find just the opposite…OUTSIDE of major metro areas & Quartzsite, AZ. You want allies in your PDs & SDs, along with state officers, too. In fact…if you wanna get their real “gut check reaction” ask them what they think about law-abiding citizens’ concealed carry. If an officer balks…there’s a problem with him or the upper echelon in his department. If they snap back an affirmative answer with little thought…you can bet that they understand the mindset of the 80+ million-strong brotherhood of gun owners.

    • Spoon

      Dang…DonM snuck the address of the PA for Crawford County. I know Xactly where that’s at. I have a couple of cousins there.

      Time to break the FAX machine and burn the phone lines with our displeasure.

      Thanks Don!

    • http://ConservativeByte notassmartastherestofyou

      Be sure to represent yourself next time you need legal help.

    • Keith

      Just wanted everyone to know that when I started this lawsuit issue, I had several different attorney’s. However, each one of them informed me that their local Bar Association told them if they didn’t drop off the case, they would lose their law licenses. I’ve already spent ten days in jail for pushing this issue, but I don’t care if I spend a year in jail, it’s not going to stop me trying to bring some sort of justice to the issue. Anyway, as a result of the “legal community” backing away from enforcing the public’s civil/constitutional Rights, I am representing this case pro se and will continue to do so because I’m not certain there’s a lawyer out there who doesn’t think his/her law licenses is more important than our constitutionally guaranteed Rights.

  • bob clark

    i ususally support the police , but this is simply FACIST behavior. They can use cameras and we cant ? And it even has the jouralist or TV stations worried. that is like Iran, Russia or North korea and china. What the hell ? Where did this nation go ?

  • Vance Andersen

    WOW! “Citizens don’t have a constitutional right to record law enforcement.” Hmm isn’t our President from Illinois? Makes you wonder. What next? Arresting someone for yelling “You suck!,” to the president? Oh wait, Cliton did that. Government out of control.

  • off plum

    Oathkeepers.org is the word we need to spread to the military and police.
    Ck out this site and tell everyone you know about it . They are standing behind their oath to defend the constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. Many veterans and active duty military along with police have joined. It’s a great idea and they swore to never take the guns, never send anyone to detention camps and any action against the citizens of this country by the UN OR ANYONE ELSE’S WILL BE CONSIDERED A ACT OF WAR.

    • Todd

      Many of the military and police are already aware and believe!

  • Daniel

    This just show how backwards the state is about the people of Ill. They can’t pay their
    bills. So arrest anyone that goes against the state and put them in jail. This is socialism at
    its best. I tried of the New/One World Order and the One World Church, Muslims Shariah
    Law give orders on how they want everyone to abide by the Muslims take over . Let start putting them in jail where they belong. No Muslim Shariah Law in this country. This is America not some Muslim country.

  • David

    This is why they don’t want citizens to have firearms in Illinois.
    AND why they NEED THEM !

  • Cat

    Paranoid?? So your mind and eye can record and you can testify to what you see and hear but something artificial like a camera cannot? He should have said he accidentally recorded the police. They just happened to get in the way.

    • Todd

      What SHOULD happen is JUDGES who don’t abide by OUR Constitution should be removed from their position and any adverse decision that was made by him/her should automatically be nullified.

      • Keith

        Well Todd, what do you think of a judge who walked up to me in the hallway of the local court building and said: “Keith, I’ve been wanting to talk to you for a long time. I want to apologize to you for ruining your life and destroying your business. Everything you have ever written about me is absolutely 100% correct. Members of the dental community, and a few of the local politicians, telephoned me and said that when you were brought back into my court that if I find you guilty, they would guarantee me a nomination to a higher court.” This conversation was reported to numerous judicial entities and the Washington State Bar Association, but nothing was ever done to this judge. He still occupies a seat on the Superior Court.

        • Todd

          Keith, that’s just plain horrible! I am truly sorry for what happened to you.

          There are definitely some evil bastards in this country.

          And I think that everyone involved, including those of whom neglected their duties by refusing to follow up on your complaint, should be in prison.

        • Keith

          Todd: I filed a lawsuit against the judges involved in this mess, but none of the federal judges would allow the case to go before a jury. That is just one of the numerous violations of my constitutionally protected Rights I’ve had to deal with.

  • Packinheat

    We the people MUST take this country back

  • jb80538

    What are they trying to hide that they don’t want to be videoed while on duty in public?

  • Jon Dolfurd

    Can you forward to Constitutional Byte?

    On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Kathy Wright wrote:

    http://www.dailytech.com/First%2BCircuit%2BCourt%2Bof%2BAppeals%2BRules%2Bthat%2BCitizens%2BCan%2BVideotape%2BPolice/article22587.htm

    Gadgets First Circuit Court of Appeals Rules that Citizens Can Videotape Police
    Tiffany Kaiser – August 31, 2011 1:33 PM

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    (Source: mindseyenews.webs.com)
    The filming of government officials while on duty is protected by the First Amendment, said the Court

    The First Circuit Court of Appeals reached a crucial decision last Friday allowing the public to videotape police officers while they’re on the clock.

    The decision comes after a string of incidents where individuals have videotaped police officers and were arrested. Police officers across the United States believed citizens didn’t have the right to videotape them as they conducted official duties, but issues like police brutality put the issue up for debate.

    One instance where a citizen was arrested for videotaping an officer was when Khaliah Fitchette, a law-abiding teenager from New Jersey, boarded a bus in Newark. Two police officers boarded the bus as well to remove a drunken man. Fitchette began taping the police officers because of how they were handling the man, and a police officer instructed her to stop recording them. When Fitchette refused, she was arrested and placed in the back of a cop car for two hours while the officers took her phone to delete the video. Fitchette was then released, but she and her mother then filed suit against the Newark Police Department with the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

    Another example involves Simon Glik, a passerby on the Boston Common. He used his cell phone to tape police officers when the Boston police were punching a man. Citizens surrounding the scene were saying, “You’re hurting him.” Glik never interfered with the police officers’ actions, but recorded the entire incident. The police officers ended up charging Glik with violating a wiretap statute that prohibits secret recording, even though the police officers admitted that they knew Glik was recording them. He was also charged with disturbing the peace and aiding the escape of a prisoner.

    While all charges against Glik were dropped due to lack of merit, he still decided to join forces with the ACLU and file a civil rights suit to prevent a similar incident from occurring with others.

    On Friday, August 26, 2011, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which is New England’s highest federal court just below the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled that citizens are allowed to videotape law officials while they conduct official duties.

    The city’s attorneys made the argument that police officers should have been exempt from a civil rights lawsuit in the first place in this case because the law is unclear as to whether there’s a “constitutionally protected right to videotape police” conducting their daily duties in public.

    “The filming of government officials engaged in their duties in a public place, including police officers performing their responsibilities, fits comfortably within these principles [of protected First Amendment activity].,” said the Court. “Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting the free discussion of governmental affairs.”

    The Court added that the police officers should have understood this all along, and that videotaping public officials is not limited to the press.

    “Moreover, changes in technology and society have made the lines between private citizen and journalist exceedingly difficult to draw,” the Court continued. “The proliferation of electronic devices with video-recording capability means that many of our images of current events come from bystanders with a ready cell phone or digital camera rather than a traditional film crew, and news stories are now just as likely to be broken by a blogger at her computer as a reporter at a major newspaper. Such developments make clear why the news-gathering protections of the First Amendment cannot turn on professional credentials or status.”

    The Court concluded that police officers are to expect to deal with certain “burdens” as citizens practice First Amendment rights, but that there needs to be a healthy balance between police officers being videotaped while acting irresponsibly and the harassment of officers with recording devices while they’re conducting their duties responsibly.

    Kathy Wright

    “It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government.” -Thomas Paine

    “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” -Benjamin Franklin

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  • http://www.nra.org MalikTous

    Canned Heat did a song ‘Sic ‘Em Pigs’ on this, and Frank Zappa did one called ‘Mama Mama’ on the old ‘We’re Only In It For the Money’ album.

  • who

    These ar thee same police that drive around in squad cars while talking on their cell phones. There are a lot of rumors of questionable activity this area.

  • catman

    And most of you cry babies would be the first to dial 911 and want the cops there in seconds
    to protect some of your sorry asses.
    A retired cop and damned proud of it. Just for kicks and goggles, I NEVER used my weapon in anger.

  • Mde

    I record if they get off course but I will sent the recording to my lawyer if any law is being abused
    I do the same with phone threats if they cone up
    Police not above the law

  • Margaret

    They are in public or a persons’ home so who protects the citizen?
    If there is nothing wrong being done by officers they have nothing to fear.
    Was this law introduced by some redneck billy jack wielder that didn’t want to be seen?
    I understand how law enforcement meant for it to be used initially, but they are carrying it to extremes here. The law needs clarification by the states and federal government.
    This man does not deserve any jail time or to be charged with any offense. He has done nothing but try to record the exact conversations to protect himself in the case involving his automobiles.

  • Reed

    Hubcap, I would like to thak you for the brief history lesson. You spoke of things I’d forgotten. It show us that the “precedent” for such actions has already been established. So don’t let the arrogant fools in office ever get away with saying that there is NO PRECEDENT for such actions. It is LONG past time that the citizens of the USA DEMAND transparency and openness from ALL public officials regardless of office they occupy. For FAR TOO LONG they have been permitted by “we the people” to “spin” the facts and we ave unfortunately accepted the “spin” for any number of “reasons”. To read the posts of other REAL Americans such as yourself buoys my spirits and belief that the people still value and revere the Constitution and expect the people we elect to honor the oath they recite to preserve and defend the country and the Constitution. God bless everyone of us who think like that. We are the people the authors of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote that document. The Constitution is what it is, to be taken at FACE VALUE and it IS NOT A LIVING BREATHING DOCUMENT as the Libs are so fond of saying. Remember, that statement is SPIN.

  • http://none jack S

    The news Media is exempt but not a Citizen from recording a situatation. If this is so how come every Doctors office and just about every one has to call is advised that ” their conversation may be recorded for quality control purposes” This then should be prohibited as well. This is just a way for Law Enforcement to hide behind the things that may go wrong that would not be in their favor, and it is WRONG so says the Constitution and the Patriot Act also has been misused as well as the Right to Know law, which pertains only to the Person’s right to know not the office trying not to give information to a patient or client. Look it up “right to know” this being said I think that a civilian or a Police officer should have the right to film or record as long as they advise and get consent of the person to be filmed or recorded with out it being done should be unlawful. But no Misdemeanor should carey a 75 year sentence, a fine the first time an stiffer penalites thereafter, depending on the situation. Films has been taken of Dressing rooms and such a Penalty was never given. Law enforcement has got out of hand in the pursuit of Money, when Illegals run free with Drugs and our Officers are hiding to give a speeding ticket or what ever else they can find being done, like improper turns, small accounts of misdemeanors that PAY OFF in FINES. to funnel money to the illegals that work for the Villages.

  • ernest

    If you go to court a judge usually says you should have better documentation if it’s some kind of agreement and given the gestapo tactics of the large PD’s I’m not surprised that this happened after all now they are judge and jury and a judge seems obligated to use police recomendations rather than use the evidance in front of them .

  • Chuck

    It’s funny stars get this kinbda treatment every day and nothing is done, even tho sometimes they are not in public and behind the fence around thier property. But you do this to a cop and you go to jail for life. You don’t eveb serve that much time if yoiy kill some one. Cops need to get a life, if they are in public then they are free game.

  • Charles Higley

    I saw a video of a woman watching and videoing a police stop from her own front yard. She was ordered to go into her house even though she stopped videoing. The cop claimed it made him nervous to have her behind his back, which she was not, as he was talking at her.

    She was nowhere near him and, as I see it, he has no right to order her on her own property as she was no threat to him and there was no threat of any kind from her except that she was a witness to the stop.

    Did he have something to hide? If simply having citizens in the neighborhood makes them nervous, we need to revisit their training and modus operandi.

    More and more some police are taking the stance of Gestapo and appear to be considering the public as an enemy to be controlled rather than a society to be served. If they are so fed up with the people who employ them, they should quit. It seems that, recently, they were given orders regarding treatment of citizens which has changed their attitude. Is this shades of the national army our Fearful Leader said he wanted?

  • scarecrow

    If this man’s lawyer is any good, they’ll bring up the cases that have been thrown out. One of the latest cases is from Boston where federal First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston recently ruled in the case of Simon Glik. “Simon Glik, a Boston attorney who was arrested and had his cell phone confiscated after recording police officers arresting a man in Boston Common. He subsequently sued, asserting his rights were violated.” Mr Glik was worried that law enforcement officers were using excessive force during the arrest, so he pulled out his cellphone and made an audio and video recording of it. The police subsequently arrested him for disturbing the peace and aiding in the escape of a prisoner and charged him with violating the Massachusetts Wiretap Act. The police later admitted that they knew Mr. Glik was using his phone to capture the arrest when they confronted him. The court has since allowed Mr. Glik to go forward in his suit against the police for violating his constitutional rights and arresting him without probable cause because it found that the officers misused their authority in arresting him.

    “The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that “a citizen’s right to film government officials, including law enforcement officers, in the discharge of their duties in a public place is a basic, vital, and well-established liberty safeguarded by the First Amendment.”” The First Amendment clearly protects Mr. Glik’s right to videotape public events. The Fourth Amendment protects Simon Glik and everyone else from arrest without probable cause. Simon Glik obviously was openly recording therefore he was not guilty in illegal wiretapping. The officers made the mistake of trying to criminalizing Mr. Glik’s exercising his rights into a crime. What he did was to attempt to make the officers accountable for their conduct by turning his cellphone camera on them. It’s of no surprise that other police departments have attempted to use this same lame-duck and that they will continue to do so. The court documents can be found at this link.

    http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/10-1764P-01A.pdf

  • Sally

    You need to see if you can find a Facebook “Share” button to add to your blog, so that we can just click “Share” and post an article to all of our friends at once with one easy click.

    It’s far better than just Like. You might see if “Add To Any” will interface, it will post to all kinds of sites, not just Facebook.

    Just an idea— Thanks for reporting the Truth!

  • http://www.paladinfirearmsllc.com Paladin

    I have only two words which should be enough to anyone old enough to remember…

    RODNEY KING.

    Video tapes of police doing bad things = civil court = damages and awards in the MILLIONS.

    Is it a wonder they are apprehensive or get angry about being taped when every single movement, action, response will be scrutinized and most certainly offend someone.

    That said, should this guy go to jail… on the surface, absolutely not, however can tell was he interfering with police conducting an investigation, did he commit some other crime not caught on tape.

  • Michael Seyfried

    Could it be that even though the majority of cops are good people, that some are simply thugs with a badge? If it is recorded in public then no one even police have an expectation of privacy. What don’t you understand about PUBLIC? Who was it that once stated that the law is an ass!

  • Don Cartmill

    This is a very bad law ,when there is no system of checks and balances in place. One very important criteria in establishing the tapeing to be illegal would be that the taped “action/conversation” had infact a reasonable expectancy of privacy. A term with which the legal establishment should be well aware. To criminalize /attempt to criminalize the filming / tapeing of a public happening (excluding situations where “pirateing for profit” someone elses artistic creation ) This is nothing more than legal thuggery and should be abolished…Law enforcement was never ( in the USA ) intended to create a police state.

  • Smith

    Nullification is the answer. The jury has the power to just say no we won’t send him to jail…and that is the end of it. Most people just don’t realize the power a jury has to apply justice in spite of the law. Read up on it.

  • http://www.charter.net HTCM USN James Graham

    LAUS DEO,
    Do you know what it means?

    One detail that is never mentioned is that in Washington , D.C. There can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument.

    With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time. I was not aware of this amazing historical information.

    On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington Monument in Washington , D.C. , are displayed two words:

    Laus Deo.

    No one can see these words. In fact, most visitors to the monument are totally unaware they are even there and for that matter, probably couldn’t care less.

    Once you know Laus Deo’s history , you will want to share this with everyone you know. These words have been there for many years; they are 555 feet, 5.125 inches high, perched atop the monument, facing skyward to the Father of our nation, overlooking the 69 square miles which comprise the District of Columbia, capital of the United States of America.

    Laus Deo! Two seemingly insignificant, unnoticed words. Out of sight and, one might think, out of mind, but very meaningfully placed at the highest point over what is the most powerful city in the most successful nation in the world.

    So, what do those two words, in Latin, composed of just four syllables and only seven letters, possibly mean? Very simply, they say ‘Praise be to God!’

    Though construction of this giant obelisk began in 1848, when James Polk was President of the United States , it was not until 1888 that the monument was inaugurated and opened to the public. It took twenty-five years to finally cap the memorial with a tribute to the Father of our nation,

    Laus Deo
    ‘Praise be to God!’

    From atop this magnificent granite and marble structure, visitors may take in the beautiful panoramic view of the city with its division into four major segments. From that vantage point, one can also easily see the original plan of the designer, Pierre Charles l’Enfant ….. a perfect cross imposed upon the landscape, with the White House to the north. The Jefferson Memorial is to the south, the Capitol to the east and the Lincoln Memorial to the west.

    A cross you ask? Why a cross? What about separation of church and state? Yes, a cross; separation of church and state was not, is not, in the Constitution. So, read on. How interesting and, no doubt, intended to carry a profound meaning for those who bother to notice.

    When the cornerstone of the Washington Monument was laid on July 4th, 1848 deposited within it were many items including the Holy Bible presented by the Bible Society. Praise be to God! Such was the discipline, the moral direction, and the spiritual mood given by the founder and first President of our unique democracy ‘One Nation, Under God.’

    I am awed by George Washington’s prayer for America …. Have you ever read it? Well, now is your unique opportunity, so read on!

    ‘ Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.’
    Laus Deo!

    It is hoped you will send this to every child you know; to every sister, brother, father, mother or friend. They will not find offense, because you have given them a lesson in history that they probably never learned in school. With that, be not ashamed, or afraid, but have pity on those who will never see this because someone failed to send it on.

  • shawn corrigan

    this is what happens when good people do nothing,and let progressive socialists continue to grind away at the nations constitution. if we do not stand up against this communistic wave we will repeat the history that happened in russia,germany,china,north korea,cuba,and many other places. our only hope is for people to stand up for the constitution. ron paul has done this more consistantly than ANY other leader. yes people differ with him on defense.
    but is what he says inline with our founding document. running other nations is NOT our job.
    defense is authorized only, not nation building. if we dont follow the constitution we will die as a nation. that includes the foundation of currency.

    as the real rule of the world said so clearly .. “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.”
    Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790

    • Certified American

      The Federal Reserve has proven that….and aren’t the Rothschilds members of the bilderbergs! And aren’t they one of the families that control the Fed….thus controlling our Nation….

  • Johnnygard

    Folks, If you ever get on a jury, and you believe the defendant should not be punished for what he/she did – such as this man – you can vote NOT GUILTY even though you know he/she actually did violate the law. Despite what the judge instructs you about what you have to do, you can still find them not guilty. On the other hand, if you truly believe the defendant is guilty, but the prosecution did not prove its case, you need to have a hung jury (at least one juror not agreeing with the others) so the prosecution can retry the case later. That is what should have happened in the OJ murder trial and the Casey Anthony case.

  • Keepyourpower

    When I was a police officer….I had to audio tape my Lt. because of all the discrimination that was going on against me in that department.

    So that means police officers can get away with many misdemeanors and felonies against citizens.

    Speak of a Police State!!!!

  • Simon Jester

    If he gets convicted on this bullshit charge, it’s up to us to break him out….in the name of freedom!

  • John

    Arresting citizens for filming activities of the police as eavesdropping charges is unique in ILLINOIS and IT MUST STOP!!! I live in Illinois and am aware of the high level of corruption in this state. It is not the police so much, although they do use the eavesdropping charge as a shield, but it’s more the corrupt – swampy – stinking politician thugs from Chicago that is destroying this state. If we were able to video more of their activity instead of allowing them to hide behind the flimsy eavesdropping laws of this state then maybe we could start cleaning this state up a little.

  • Pegsue

    Apparently we have to be illegal immigrants to have any rights.

  • Micah

    After reading many of these comments on here, we come to the conclusion that most people don’t respect the law enforcement agents. It is a shame that it is that way but the facts are that the law enforcement agents do not deserve respect. I hate to say it but most of them are criminals themselves. They are like the school classroom bullies that we all had to deal with as children. They don’t want someone recording them breaking the law. Our whole system needs an overhaul in my opinion.

  • James Fontana

    They can record us through wire taps with no warrant thanks to Homeland Security, they can record us with their dash cams during a traffic stop, they can record us in their interview rooms and they can record us on the street with their cameras high above the street and we can’t record an incidence of police brutality? How about a cop speeding against the light through a busy intersection with NO lights and siren? (probably the ready light at Krispy Kreme just came on) Along with owning guns citizens should be allowed to carry video cameras (most do in their cell phones) and record corrupt cops being corrupt. NOT ALL COPS are bad but lets record and weed out the bad ones and not be fear of retaliation.

  • Michele S

    We are losing one right after another. This is the result of the govvernment state that our liberal legislators are putting in place for this country. Vote these people out!

  • dan

    WHY DOES ANYONE REMAIN IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS???????
    ARE YOU A TREE???????
    CAN YOU MOVE????
    THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT OKENYAN WANTS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY TO BE LIKE!
    WHERE DID HE COME FROM?? CHICAGO.
    OUTRAGEOUS LAWS AS THIS.
    OUTRAGEOUS CORRUPTION!
    OUTRAGEOUS TAXES!
    ILLINOIS HAS THE SECOND HIGEST DEFICITS, SECOND ONLY TO CALIFORNIA.
    PER CAPITA, THE HIGHEST DEFICITS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!
    WHY??????????? CORRUPTION!!!!!

    HERE IS YOUR OPPROTUNITY TO MOVE……..
    I HAVE A FANTASTIC , EXTENSIVELY RENOVATED HISTORIC HOME IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR SALE. GO HERE…..
    http://www.323kingsbury.com
    GET THE HELL OUT OF ILLINOIS BEFORE THEY BUILD A WALL AROUND IT AND YOU CANT GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Irosin

    Remember when Ferdinand Marcos slithered out the back door of his palace in the 70′s? The people of the Philippines had enough of the thug dictator. UNITED they filled the streets of Manila in a PEACEFUL PROTEST. The People Power was sucessful in the removal of that criminal.

    WE NEED A PEOPLE POWER MARCH ON THE WHITE HOUSE! DO NOT GIVE UP UNTIL OBAMA IS GONE!

    • MLH

      It will have to be about a 5000 man armed march to be of any good. Then we can get things all cleared up in an afternoon. :)

  • sam

    Police have the toughest job in the world besides the military.I firmly believe the Police do far more good than harm.As a New Yorker I can tell first hand we value our Police Dept and know beyond a doubt they are there to serve and protect.Obviously, as with everything, there may be a few bad apples but for the most part I feel the Police ensure safety for citizens. I notice there are NO recordings of the good work done by Police.

  • Dennis

    This is obvious abuse of power.If you have nothing to hide then youll not care to be recorded.Wake up people.You do not nor have you ever really lived in a free country.

  • Jim

    If any of you can remember,when Oboma was on the stump for President, he said….”I will have a police force as “well trained “and “well armed” as the” Military”…Well folks, you re-elect him to a second term and you’ll have it. This has happened in our past and that police force was called the “S S” and guess when and where that was. If you are to young to know or remember..it was is Germany before and during WWII….And look what happened…. the man in charge at the time was…Hitler….
    ………” WAKE UP AMERICA”……….!!!!!

  • Tiredoftherunaround

    If this man has to do jail time for recording the local police in direct contact with him than we are truly in trouble. I cannot believe that there is even a law on the books that would prohibit the recording of what is said or takes place between an officer and civilian. If dash cams are legal for the police to use than we should not be prohibited from our own recordings. This is dangerous, and the danger is truly for the general public. We seem to slowly loose our rights and our protections under the very laws enacted to protect us.

  • John B. Williams

    Anyone with half a brain who is watching the ongoing corruption in Illinois government knows that the state’s law enforcement agencies are nothing short of gestapos. Their former governor knows about it, but he was smart enough to get out when he had the chance. He thought what he did was humorous, what he didn’t realize was that the people governing the state didn’t share his sense of humor. In the last days before Bill Clinton left office, he signed numerous inconsequential bills into law. He never published them as such, so the public doesn’t know what they are. But, as the late Paul Harvey would have said, “And now you know the rest of the story.” We will never know what Obama is doing, because the media is in his pocket. They all have an agenda folks: put good people behind bars and release the criminals. The Bible, which they all hate because God holds people accountable for their actions, calls it “The Age of Lawlessness.” It is the beginning of the End Times, also covered in the Bible. If you are not studying the Bible, then you will not know what is going on and you will be a victim of their ideology.

  • G Carson

    It isn’t illegal to photograph or film anyone who is in public, out in the street, on public property. They’re in public. Publishing their image is another matter entirely.

  • Glenn

    Just 1 more reason to make government smaller and put the every day workings of government back in the hands of the people . The polce are the ones breaking the law and should pay with their job’s as they are not fit to up hold the constitutional vows they took to up hold the law .

  • Don

    Well I am for proper law inforcement, however this example is not proper law enforcement. One way we can step up and combat this problem is to assist the individuals being wrongfully charged and prove to the government and law enforcement the people rule as is meant to be. How can we get the specifics and where can we send this individual financial support to fight this injustice. Someone please post this info and lets stand together with this guy and wait to bitch after if we all fail together. That is what we need to do, if that fails then it’s most certainly time for other actions as is stated in the second amendment. WE THE PEOPLE RULE AND WILL BE HEARD.

  • John B. Williams

    What facts are missing in this report folks. He has to have done something to have provoked the police into arresting him. As for the sentence, well, that is nothing short of the judge’s misuse of his power.

    • pete0097

      He did nothing to provoke the cops, just trying to keep the facts straight, not the way they will record them in their report. remember, once they write the report, it is “gospel” and must the correct recording of what happened. With a vidio recording, they can’t tell lies in court. Of course this works both ways, however, judges always believe the cops. It is only when you catch them out in a lie that the judge believes the defendant. I did it to a cop, not on vidio, but with the tax maps. The cop said that he didn’t know the lady that hit me, she said that she didn’t know the cop. Lo and behold, the tax records indicated that they were neighbors with only a fence between them. Case dismissed, and the judge said to the cop ” I want to see YOU in my chambers NOW”

  • tokool1

    I know there are a lot of fine and outstanding law enforcement personal in our country that go above and beyond the call! But there are some that are just thugs with a gun and a bad attitude! The law should apply equally to all persons. We have a lot of freedoms in this great country! But if there are chipped away little by little, soon we have none!

  • http://in John Goult

    Need to Stop and think about just :Who” the Police are, and who they work “UNDER”! The Chef of Police is Hired BY the City Government! IS: They work for the Government for THEM and NOT for the People. The County Sheriff is Hired for and BY the People, For the People!
    Thank about it!

  • Supertad108

    The topics and points being brought out have merit however, me personally, do not want to throw out the baby with the bath water. YES, we have corrupt people and it’s those who corrupt. We are a nation of laws but are quickly becoming a nation of tyrants. What’s wrong here is We, the People have allowed our “Constitutional police departments” to become Law Enforcers and are NO longer Law Protectors.. To Serve and To Protect. Huge vehicle sticker across the back of a Sheriff’s car… SEAT BELT ENFORCEMENT.. CLICK IT OR TICKET! Conveniently missing on the side.. To Protect and Serve. There was a time when those words meant something… UNTIL we allowed progressive thinking liberals to overrun us with Social Justice, It’s not fair you have more than me, Everyones gets a trophy, It’s not my fault, Save the Whatever, and on and on they go. Every time the looney-tune individuals create laws on top of more laws it merely serves ONE purpose… TYRANNY!

  • pete0097

    The answer as to why the cops go after citizens with cameras is easy. Which would you rather go after: someone with a camera aimed at you or someone with a gun aimed at you. They go the safe way every time. Why harrass a drug dealer that may have an Uzi when you can go after a soccer mom late on her way to practice. Speed traps make them money, drug stings don’t. They also like arresting prostitutes and johns. Easy arrests and great headlines. Whyd do you think that donut shops are raresly robbed.

  • Kev G

    What to do expect from the most corrupt state in the union.
    Does this place breed anything except cockroaches?
    Another Demoncratic strong hold hiding there dirt from us.
    Can’t film the cops so think how hard it is to film all the corruption that goes on there.
    The unions and mafia have made Chicago their prime residence.
    Look at the sorry piece of crap we have for president.
    Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright can shoot his racist trap off all day long and not a peep about it the community. Freedom of speech of course.
    I can guarantee if someone filmed a minority being beaten or harassed, heads would roll 24 /7 on all the news channels.
    Lets gather all of these overbearing big bad tough cops who are camera shy and have them enforce the law in the streets of Mexico for six months.
    The drug cartel will invite them with open arms I’m sure.
    Talk about inducing a new hatred for the police with these terms of engagement.

  • daves

    The State is wrong for pursuing these charges.

    It is ridiculous to say “the establishment media is enthusiastically perpetuating the hoax that such conduct is unlawful”. I would love to see what they are talking about.

  • Keith Luxton

    Obama’s Secret Police are out in force. This is the disgrace which this pretender has brought on Ameerica.

    It is time for all Americans to rise up and through him back to his b

  • Keith Luxton

    Back to his native country Kenya or Indonesia. Lord protect us from him and all his illegal antics. sorry my message got split

  • Dash

    More evidence of how out of control the legal system has become. Regardless the fact that you have every right to photograph, video tape, audio tape, record in any fashion, your interactions with the police or witnessing the interaction of police with others, the cops automatically assume that our intent is to cause them harm, not protect our rights. If they were acting in the public service as their job intends, they’d have no cause for concern over being recorded and we’d feel no need to record the interaction anyway. Instead, we fear for our own safety and protection from these “public servants” so our only defense is to record our interaction with them just to keep them honest. I understand that they have to deal with a lot of knuckleheads, but we’re not the knuckleheads. Most of us are responsible citizens. Most of them are way too fast to resort to abuse of power…and we pay BIG MONEY for that abuse.

    The faster that our rights are eroded, the quicker the day of reconing will come.

  • http://conservativebyte.com Steven

    Police can find out where I live and I make it a point to know where they live……..

  • John Belcher

    This is another part of the rights of the citizens being removed by the career politicians. This is a replica of Nazi Germany. A police state that will not stop at this but soon they will fire up the ovens for mass de-population by any so-called authority figure.
    If these police are supposed to protect they should have no problem having their actions recorded.

  • Stanley

    It is illegal to photograph cops in Illinois, Maryland and Mass…

  • Stanley

    It’s illegal for citizens to use /have a fuzz buster in Virginia! The police uses radar on the citizens! This has been going on for years! I haven’t heard of the citizens crying about that! It clearly states they’re illegal when you enter the state of Virginia. Or it used too….

  • Right Turn Only

    This is a precursor to a police state if these laws are allowed stand in the current wording to protect those that are pushing to steal away our rights.

    We are passively being watched all the time with both public and private security systems.
    To make them only available to the the govt to prosecute its citizenry will lead tp more govt corruption and a police state.

  • Julius Lohr

    Law enforcement and the court system are completely out of control. My wife’s niece was pulled over and ticketed for using her cell phone while driving. Point 1. She WASN’T! Point 2. Her purse (with the cell phone in it) was locked inside her trunk which she illustrated to the police officer, so what exactly did this cop THINK he saw?!?!?!? Point 3. When she appeared in traffic court she produced her record of cell phone use which clearly indicated there was no activity in the time frame of the supposed infraction. Still, she received a fine of $435.00 for a fabricated offense. I ask you…..HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE WITNESSED COPS USING CELL PHONES IN MATTERS THAT TRANSCENDED THE ABRUPT RADIO TRAFFIC INVOLVED IN DISPATCHING TO AN INCIDENT?…..I MEAN “LENGTHY CONVERSATIONS”!!!!! I suppose our ability to uphold the law against our accusers just flew out the window with this case. Police Officers lose whatever respect they deserve when they can’t own up to their human frailties such as poor judgement or an obvious mistake, let alone being chronic abusers of the laws they enforce against us! Ever follow a police cruiser in traffic? Worst drivers on the planet!!!!! And the JUDICIAL SYSTEM?!?!?!?!?!!………..Some other time………..

  • http://ConservativeByte notassmartastherestofyou

    The sole purpose of the police force is to act against the citizenry. Never confuse the police with firemen or our military. The military act on behalf of the populous against foreign threats. The firemen work to save the populous from a number of different harms. The police work directyly against the people, supoposedly on behalf of the people. They are government stooges, and love to act the part.

  • Unique Lies

    You are being arrested on Commercial Laws which they call statutory law. It is the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code).
    Any law you are arrested for must be definite and specific or the case can be dismissed.
    People who think they are patriotic need to read the U.S. Constitution and learn what it means. We the people are the Sovereign not the government or policeman. They get their power or authority from the people.
    The government is usurping their powers not given to them by the people.
    Soon you can look for the Mark of the Beast if you don’t stand up or your unalienable rights.
    Not everyone has Unalienable Rights in America. It is your responsibility to know if you are or not. No one can claim your rights from for you. Not even a lawyer! Constitutional Rights MUST be claimed by a belligerent claimant in person.
    If you don’t know your Rights…. you don’t have any!

  • Chris Rathje

    I too find this case reprehensible , and I am a police officer . In fact , I work in a police dept. utilized in this news story . The officer depicted was a Sgt., and I was shocked to see such behavior . In NY , we don’t have such laws and people record us all the time . I’m not sure of the circumstances , but I’m sure there was more to it than just recording the police .

  • Randy

    Looks like Obama and his old sidekick Rahm Emanual are trying to turn the police into the civilian army Obama said he wanted to use against the people that would be at least as powerful as the U.S. military. We are losing our rights under this administration and we need to vote all of these Commiecrats out of office ASAP! I could not believe Dead-fish weaseled his way into office with no strong opposition after leaving the whitehouse. He obviously had that position bought and paid for before hand.

  • LANI

    This is Disgraceful!

  • American

    What do they fear? Afraid of not being able to abuse their power without repercussions?

    This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and must be fought. Here is an idea – Flash mob them and record them with a hundred or so folks periodically.

    Hey people in Illinois – Note the Prosecutor’s wasting your money and their time on this ridiculous overreach of government authority. Time is heavy on their hands to go to this length – or is this perhaps a vindictive attempt to squash individual rights and freedoms?

    Either way we know what to do when the time is right.

    Someone mark this – I heard that an ACLU attorney is defending the guy in this video. This is the first time I can ever recall of them standing up for the right thing.

  • MLH

    Eavesdropping? Where exactly are the “Eaves”? From Websters New Collegiate Dictionary 1977 edition p. 358 “eaves”: “the lower border of a roof that overhangs the wall”. In other words, you have to be standing outside of someone’s window SECRETLY listening to what is being said inside that room. Now lets look at “eavesdrop”: “literally one standing under the drip from the eaves to listen SECRETLY to what is said in PRIVATE” (emphasis mine). There is no crime! There are no eaves in the case, the listening is being done in PUBLIC, and there is no element of secrecy at all. What we are seeing is a criminal misapplication of the law to chill the Citizens’ right to record anyone in a public place. If this brave man is found guilty by a jury … first SHAME on WE THE PEOPLE … second if you are going to get 75 years for shooting with a camera or cell phone … you might as well shoot with your gun and protect your fellow Citizen from the criminal police action instead … you get the same amount of time for using your gun! Sooner or later WE have to do our duty to stay Free! :)

  • poogymom

    I wonder if any of this will send a clear message to the anonymous group of what lies ahead for them given their hacking activities. So far they’ve hacked government, law enforcement, and private databases. I also believe that their round up won’t be too far off in the distant future regardless of where they live, and that the “red tape” issues are currently being resolved. I think that by now, the Fed Govt knows exactly who they are, where they live, and have been obtaining warrants for their arrests. Just my thots, have nothing to prove any of it…just my thots.

  • http://conservativebyte.com/2011/09/blaze-exclusive-update-msnbc-anchor-moderated-cbc-panel-portraying-tea-party-as-lynch-mob/ Doc Freeman

    Doesn’t this sound like old Germany and the Nazis? I knew we had a dictator instead of a president, when did we get the Gestapo, too?

  • Sid

    Could this apply to the recording of inmates & officers in our prisons? Ironically, sometimes what is filmed in prison is not what you think you are seeing! I have known inmates to play to the camera. For i.e. They know that the camera is rolling however they also know that they are out of view of the camera, and then they start yelling you are choking me/hurting me etc.. When in fact no one is hurting anyone. But the do gooders in our prisons will side with the inmate. It is a sad state of affairs how criminals on or off the street can manipulate the system!

  • wnettles

    Believe it or not, the police still work for the taxpayers. They may not think that they do, they may not act like it at times, but, the reality is that they still work for us.

    It does make one sick to see the First Amendment get stomped on by jack booted thugs, but, in the end, one revolution corrected that problem back a couple of centuries ago, and, the next revolution we will have to revisit this issue.

    Some law enforcement officers actually do know and respect the Constitution. A few of those even go so far as enforcing the Constitution, but, those are few and far between. The police are supposed to protect the citizens from violations of the law. That law includes the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the other Amendments.

    Funny, the government expects the taxpayers to fund it, but, does not do it’s job to protect those same taxpayers from abuses by the government. It is just a matter of time before that government model collapses from the weight of itself. May be sooner than many think.

  • Hwitbera

    Well it seems that it is back on the air, now. Can’t always believe some posters. In this case it may have been someone with an axe to grind in favor of jailing the man for a phony charge.

  • Charlie

    This is a golden opportunity. One of the few times where civil libertarians, libertarians, and conservatives can all line up on and do something together. This goes against all our principles, and it must be stopped.

    The Leninist-branch liberals and facist-branch conservatives that would encourage such things cannot be allowed to prevail, if it does, the police can act unchecked with no accountability.

    I usually write off Prison Planet as a group of tin-foil-hat wearing wackos, but I think they’re right on the money on this one. And it needs to be paid attention to.

  • Keith

    The lawsuit I wrote of earlier relates to how the dental community deprives the public of their Right to determine who their healthcare provider will be when it comes to obtaining full and/or partial dentures. The practice of denturitry is legal throughout most of the world as it should be throughout the U.S. However, due to the money the ADA turns over to our politicians in the form of “campaign contributions,” the majority of the states deny denturists of their Common Law Right to Earn Their Living at Their Chosen Occupation; an occupation I might add that has been proven through 4 empirical reports to represent no known potential for harm to anyone. And, since the Constitution requires all laws do something to protect the public health, welfare, morals, or safety, the deprivation of denturists Rights to labor at their chosen occupation is an unconstitutional, invalid statute.

  • Dave

    This is more than just police. They, for the most part are doing what thier superiors assign. In my town and state the police do much traffic enforcement. Most of this is for financial gain and not for public safety. And in these financial times this is ludicrous. We are already on the verge of a police state, let’s not kid ourselves.

  • Merlin

    What planet are these air head officials from? The people who passed these laws and the officials that are enforcing them must have never bothered to read the constitution. Why is there a double standard for the police and the people they are suppose to serve? What are the police afraid of? Are the afraid that they will be seen breaking the very laws that they have sworn to uphold? They really do need to become more familiar with the “Bill of Rights”!!

    • Todd

      Unfortunately some of them are power hungry egotists. There is a certain percentage of them in every profession. The problem is that when these few individuals slip through the cracks, they are not brought to justice..and it give the organization, as a whole, a bad name.

      The majority of cops are good people and much prefer helping people. Those stories never make the press.

      Administrators and Judges need to enforce the rules so as to remove the bad apples.

      On another note, the politicians who make these ridiculous laws need to be removed too.

  • Dean

    The First Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 26, 2011 ruled that the public has the right under the first amendment to film public officials, which includes the police, while in the line of duty. At lease one court standing up for the constitution. Maybe this country isn’t lost yet.

    • Todd

      That’s only because the presiding Judge was one of the few remaining that has a set of balls and will enforce our Constitution without bias.

      Those judges who refuse to do so should be removed and arrested. They need to be held accountable for their part in the destruction of our Nation.

  • MLH

    I thought about this incident more and more and came to realize that if it is illegal to video cops … then it is also illegal to watch us with cameras at all the street intersections … it is time to start shooting out all the video cameras at all the street intersections … there is no justification for having them in a fee society … they are only for installing a police state over a free people!! Once we start shooting those street cameras out … they won’t have enough money or time to keep replacing them! LOL ;) )

  • Dan

    The way to combat this problem is to MASSIVELY OVERLOAD the “System” . . .

    By this I mean that EVERYONE should immediately start VIDEO-RECORDING and AUDIO-RECORDING Law Enforcement personnel and activities on a CONTINUAL and ONGOING BASIS . . . It will be IMPOSSIBLE for them to enforce their TRUMPED-UP “LAW” . . .

    If possible, rig you camera to transmit via up-link, so it will not matter if they try to confiscate, erase, or destroy the data . . . It will already have been DISTRIBUTED !

    In my opinion, the ONLY COPS who DESERVE RESPECT are the ones who EARN IT . . . Not just the EGO-MANIACS or the PSYCHO JACK-BOOTED THUGS who DARE to call themselves Police Officers !

  • Dan

    The way to combat this problem is to MASSIVELY OVERLOAD the “System” . . .

    By this I mean that EVERYONE should immediately start VIDEO-RECORDING and AUDIO-RECORDING Law Enforcement personnel and activities on a CONTINUAL and ONGOING BASIS . . .

    It will be IMPOSSIBLE for them to enforce their TRUMPED-UP “LAW” . . .

    If possible, rig you camera to transmit via up-link, so it will not matter if they try to confiscate, erase, or destroy the data . . . It will already have been DISTRIBUTED !

    In my opinion, the ONLY COPS who DESERVE RESPECT are the ones who EARN IT . . . Not just the EGO-MANIACS or the PSYCHO JACK-BOOTED THUGS who DARE to call themselves Police Officers !

  • jorge de zamacona

    Same as Hitler, and all previous fscists against whom million Americans gave up their lives.
    We are circling the drain.

  • http://N/A/ Rex

    I think the man who was charged with doing the video was violated with his 1st ammendment right. They commented the cops have a right to video us. And if a cop is doing wrong. They want evidence to subtain proof the cop actually did violate someones rights. But if the (People) video or take a picture. We are told we violate there rights? So now what do the (People) do now I wonder?? Most of the cops today violate laws worse then the citizens do.Why? Because for examples indicated here! #1. The can go through traffic lights and turn on there lights indicating there going to a scene when they actually are not. I have seen this done many of times! #2. I got a ticket when I reported a cop down laying over the saddle of the motorycyle. And drove at a reasonable speed. I reported it on the radio that to call in police department and saying cop down! And they pulled me over for a ticket for speeding. And the cop was in a parking lot with over 500 vehicles with a fence of aluminum fence surrounding the area. Never again will I resort to helping a officer in need. #3. Cops think they are above the law because (A) They know they can get away with it. (B) they think because they are the law and have badges and have influences with judges they are above the law also. They feel they can do anything and not be charged or reprimmented for any violation they do. If we loose our rights to video any officer that may violate the law. Then we loose our rights even more. Remember the Germans and Hitler? That is what is going to take place in AMERICA Folks!Think on that for a while. We should fight for our rights as Citizens! Yes, I have no respect for cops period!

  • http://N/A/ David

    I agree. The man lost his rights in showing a scene by video. And the cops also seems to think they are better then the Citizens. We pay the police and any law enforcements by taxes. About time us citizens did something to change the laws of the police department and other law enforcements in this USA. Or else we will be under dictatorship of some kind because then we will have no rights to do anything without consent from the goverment or any official. What in the world is this world coming too anyway huh?? The cops are violating our rights and getting away with murder.

  • Bundoker

    To Serve and Protect … The cops are supposed to be the good guys; but not always … it may be different in different places … same for the local and federal laws; they are not always logical … if a law is no good, change it … if the enforcement is no good fix it too … if legislation is bad, ergo this case, immigration or whatever; fix it.

  • john

    You can contact police and they will come and risk their life to help protect you. It is a founding way and morally human response for our fellow man, woman, and child. Everyone should be held accountable for his or her own actions. Know wrong from right so you can be a teacher to children and a better protector to our citizens. Citizens who stick together NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH is known for needing less police attention. SOS AMERICA………….

  • http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Josie

    Laws are made to be abided by and enforced. This man, Mr. Allison, was not abiding by the law. I would not want to live in a community with a number of junk cars parked in my neighbor’s lawn, would you? If he wants to start a business, let him move to the country where he can easily pursue his “hobby”. It seems there is a lot these days being made about police brutality, which, sad to say, does happen sometimes.Have some of these complainers thought about the abuse our officers of the law have to endure? Just as that man who was selling art on the corner, he knew the law, but he was disregarding it, and in the process setting the police up with his recording device. He knew he was doing wrong, that’s why the recording device. When I heard the ACLU got in on the court battle by paying for an attorney to defend Mr. Allison, a red flag went up. The ACLU is never up to ANY good (that is my opinion). When I see their name mentioned in anything, I am very skeptical. Our policemen put up with a lot when they are trying to arrest criminals, but there are those “sleezy” few who try and make them look bad. That boy on the skateboard was giving the officer a hard time. Where were his parents when he was growing up???? It all begins in the home, let’s face it! Let’s go back to the source of all the problems. We should be supporting our police officers. Untold numbers of them have given their very life, home and families to protect each and every one of us. There are bad eggs in every basket…even in our police departments, but let us not judge them all for a few. Let’s support our policemen and women. It is the guilty ones, the ones that aren’t abiding by the laws who are trying to discredit our law enforcement officers. In the case of this Mr. Allison, he was not in the right, and should at least get a sitation, and if he disregarded that, legal action should be taken, but I disagree with the 75-year sentence. It sounds like there was some vindictiveness on the court’s side (just my opinion). Let us be fair here. By the way, was Mr. Allison a member of a UNION?!

  • Samuel Biben

    Sure is a crooked corrupt government police state with cowardly citizens

  • Tammy

    Who are the criminals these days? When law abiding citizens are subject to felonies by trying to protect themselves from he said she said crap by recording police who are paid by our taxes. WTF is wrong with this world. Double standards & double talk should be a felony too. Most of the politicians in Wash-Your-Brain, D.C. get away with more felonious acts than this man. Just goes to prove that there is NO just in Justice left in this corrupt world.

  • Sandra

    This is the just the beginning. Every time someone supports Homeland Security’s infringement on our freedoms with that, “If we can save just one…” whine, I want to let them get a grasp of what’s coming down the pike with these kinds of reports. Once you’ve agreed that safety is worth the price of freedom… well, to say it’s a slippery slope is not just a worn out idiom, it’s an understatement to say the least.

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